He has an impressive stamp collection, though he has been 'collecting' for only a few years.
I 'collected up' [='picked up'] the dishes and brought them to the kitchen.
The operator asked me if I would accept a 'collect' call from John Smith.
(..) Turn it over. Oh, my God. It's, like, official state china of the Third Reich. There's a whole subculture of people who collect this Nazi shit. But my dad just has this one thing. - What's wrong? - Nothing. No, you're scared of me. (..)1999 American Beauty