"call collect" meaning in English

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      "form": "calls collect",
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      "form": "calling collect",
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      "form": "called collect",
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      "form": "called collect",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
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      "word": "collect call"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "english": "method for limited but free communication",
      "word": "prank"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the days of payphones, if you had no coins, you could call collect and hope that the callee would accept the charges.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call."
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      "links": [
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          "telephone",
          "telephone"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, intransitive) To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a phone call paid by the person receiving the call",
          "word": "soittaa vastapuhelu"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Call me what you want — just don’t call me collect.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Please call me to let me know you’re safe — you’re welcome to call me collect.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To call (someone) in this way."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, transitive) To call (someone) in this way."
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland"
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      "word": "reverse the charge"
    }
  ],
  "word": "call collect"
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      "form": "calls collect",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "calling collect",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "called collect",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "called collect",
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        "noun"
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      "word": "collect call"
    },
    {
      "english": "method for limited but free communication",
      "word": "prank"
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  ],
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        {
          "text": "In the days of payphones, if you had no coins, you could call collect and hope that the callee would accept the charges.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call."
      ],
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        "(US, intransitive) To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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          "text": "Call me what you want — just don’t call me collect.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Please call me to let me know you’re safe — you’re welcome to call me collect.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To call (someone) in this way."
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        "(US, transitive) To call (someone) in this way."
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      "word": "reverse the charge"
    }
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a phone call paid by the person receiving the call",
      "word": "soittaa vastapuhelu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "call collect"
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