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The federal government's credit is limited by the taxes it can collect from the American people.

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  1. transitive verb To bring together in a group or mass; gather.
  2. transitive verb To accumulate as a hobby or for study.
  3. transitive verb To call for and obtain payment of: collect taxes.
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  • Your technology also needs to help you collect, analyze and disseminate quickly and efficiently. —  MSDN Blogs
  • * Explains the types of personal information we collect, and how we use it.
  • Didier Digard did well to collect, and found Tuncay who was kept on by Andy Wilkinson. —  British Blogs
  • Bejewelled clone, but all those fancy gems you collect are actually used to attack opponents and alter the game board. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Two companies that collect, analyze and sell prescription information are mounting a Supreme Court challenge to New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation law making … —  WIVB TV
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  1. Middle English collecten, from Latin colligere, collēct- : com-, com- + legere, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English collecte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collēcta, short for (ōrātiō ad) collēctam, (prayer at the) gathering, from Latin collēctus, gathered, past participle of colligere, to gather; see collect1.

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  1. from Old French collector, French collecter = Spanish colectar = Portuguese collectar = Italian collettare, from Middle Latin collectare, collect money, from Latin collecta, a collection in money, (Late Latin) a meeting, assemblage, (Middle Latin) a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer (see collect, n.), properly feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (from French colliger = Portuguese colligar), gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer, from com-, together, + legere, gather: see legend. From Latin colligere come also English coil and cull.
  2. from Middle English collect, colect, from Late Latin collecta, a meeting (L. a collection in money), in Middle Latin also a meeting for prayer, and (for oratio ad collectam, a prayer at a preliminary service in one church, before proceeding to another church to attend mass, a prayer at the latter church being called oratio ad missam) a prayer, etc.: see collect, v.
 

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