collation
Other forms: collations
A collation is the collection and ordering of materials, usually paper. It can be tedious and repetitive work, so most people are more than happy to let a copy machine do the job for them.
Collation actually has two separate and very different meanings. After you finish the collation of all those document pages, you might grab a quick collation. (That is, you deserve a light snack after all that organizing.) That's right, a collation is also "a light meal," usually cold, and often set out for people to take at their leisure. It sometimes refers to a small meal eaten on fasting days.
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
Vocabulary lists containing collation
The top 1,000 vocabulary words have been carefully chosen to represent difficult but common words that appear in everyday academic and business writing. These words are also the most likely to appear on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and ToEFL. To create this list, we started with the words that give our users the most trouble and then ranked them by how frequently they appear in our corpus of billions of words from edited sources. If you only have time to study one list of words, this is the list.
Ender Wiggin is a brilliant but lonely young strategist in a world where children are trained to defend humankind against alien attacks.
In this comedy of manners — Jane Austen's first — Elinor and Marianne Dashwood struggle to make their way in the world after their father's death leaves them impoverished.