collation

[US]/kə'leɪʃ(ə)n/
[UK]/kəˈleʃən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.checking and comparing; revision, comparison;a light meal of cold dishes, snacks.

Example Sentences

collation of ancient books

collation of research findings

collation of survey results

Real-world Examples

The vote schedule for the end of June follows the failure of the rival parties to form a collation in the wake of an inconclusive elect in December.

Source: BBC Listening Collection May 2016

It would be an enormous night reception with palms and an orchestra and all the porches shrouded in canvas, and a collation that made her mouth water in anticipation.

Source: Gone with the Wind

He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to " come out of the gangway" as my sacred person passed.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

At luncheon things were better--it was always a fine meal; a thousand lunches in inns and restaurants, wagon-lits, buffets, and aeroplanes were a mighty collation to have taken together.

Source: The Night is Gentle (Part Two)

Then having partaken of a Collation in the Refectory, He retired from the Convent pleased with the success of his visit, and leaving the Nuns delighted by the honour conferred upon them.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

After you've been on the road for ten years a real Sunday dinner in a real home has got Sherry's flossiest efforts looking like a picnic collation with ants in the pie.

Source: Medium-rare steak

" Now, my friends, I think perhaps the time has come ..." He rose, put down his glass, brushed from his purple viscose waistcoat the crumbs of a considerable collation, and walked towards the door.

Source: Brave New World

This collation disposed of at a moderate price (considering the grease, which was not charged for), we went back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau, and then took coach for Hammersmith.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

But the power of the pope, in the collation of the great benefices of the church, seems, before the reformation, to have been nowhere so effectually and so universally restrained as in France and England.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

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