collect up

verb

collected up; collecting up; collects up
British
: to gather (things) together
I collected up the dishes and brought them to the kitchen.
The children collected their toys up and put them away.

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Hair samples were collected up to five times over four years. — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025 Under current rules, an unemployed worker can collect up to 26 weeks of benefits during a 52-week year. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025 Households may now collect up to 10 cords of firewood and three Christmas trees, with the possibility of higher limits in areas with sufficient resources. — Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025 State regulators planned to collect up to 150 samples from October to December, a small fraction of the more than $1 billion in marijuana products sold in the state annually. — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for collect up

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“Collect up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collect%20up. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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