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collation
  1. Bringing together.
    1. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. [from 14th c.]
    2. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. [from 19th c.]
    3. A collection, a gathering. [from 20th c.]
  2. Discussion, light meal.
    1. (obsolete) A conference or consultation. [14th-17th c.]
    2. (plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) [from 13th c.]
    3. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. [from 14th c.]
    4. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. [from 14th c.]
    5. Any light meal or snack. [from 16th c.]
  3. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
  4. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
    1. Synonymous: hotchpot.
  5. (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
  6. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “After hours of research and organizing, the collation of data was finally complete, resulting in a well-structured and comprehensive report.”
      “After a long day at work, the family gathered around the table for a delicious collation of pasta and salad.”
collator
  1. A person who collates.
  2. (computing) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards; a program that merges files.
  3. A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
  4. Examples:
    1. “For the moment, Sean-Paul has continued to serve as a collator of war-related news.”
      “The collator trays ensure the sushi trays are stable during transportation to the supermarkets.”
      “In 1034 he was appointed a collator of texts in the imperial library at the capital, Kaifeng.”
collationer
  1. A person who collates, or who checks collation (of documents etc)
collatee
  1. A person who is in receipt of (collated to) a benefice
collater
  1. Alternative spelling of collator
collationers
  1. plural of collationer
collations
  1. plural of collation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are eaten with pates or cold collations, their gently acidic snap making a most pleasant counterpoint to the fatty meat.”
      “One whole meal and two collations each day, abstinence from flesh meat on Ash Wednesday, Spy Wednesday and Fridays.”
      “Reared during the time when one square meal and two collations was the order of the day for Lent, giving up something like sweets is a minor detail.”
collaters
  1. plural of collater
collators
  1. plural of collator
  2. Examples:
    1. “To redress this imbalance, the film-makers became simultaneously producers, collators and distributors of this history.”
      “Supplying and installation of mini collators including control software and trial operation.”
      “Back then, the level of industrial facilities around the Golden Horn was raised and waste water collators and tunnels were built flanking the area.”
collatees
  1. plural of collatee
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