Usually means: Organization and assembly of documents.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. collation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collation, collation: Wordnik
  7. collation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collation: Wiktionary
  9. collation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. collation: Dictionary.com
  13. Collation (disambiguation), Collation (meal), Collation (religion), Collation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Collation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. collation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. collation: Rhymezone
  17. Collation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. collation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. collation: Free Dictionary
  20. collation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. collation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. collation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. collation: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Collation: Unicode Glossary
  2. collation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collation: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Bringing together.
noun:  The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
noun:  The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
noun:  A collection, a gathering.
noun:  Discussion, light meal.
noun:  (obsolete) A conference or consultation.
noun:  (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
noun:  A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
noun:  The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
noun:  Any light meal or snack.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
noun:  (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
noun:  (databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
noun:  (textual criticism) The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.
verb:  (obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.

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