Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
COLLECTIONS
Noun
collections
plural of collection
(accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.
(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.
Source: Wiktionary
COLLECTION
Col*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.]
1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.
3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.
4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]
Syn.
– Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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