"take up a collection" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "take up a collection (third-person singular simple present takes up a collection, present participle taking up a collection, simple past took up a collection, past participle taken up a collection)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, Mark Twain, chapter 20, in Huckleberry Finn",
          "text": "Then somebody sings out, \"Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!\" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, \"Let HIM pass the hat around!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 27, in K: A Novel",
          "text": "\"But I hope nobody's took up a collection for me. I don't want no charity.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 17, Jodie Morse, “Campus Crusader”, in Time",
          "text": "When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose."
      ],
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          "request",
          "request"
        ],
        [
          "receive",
          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pass the hat"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "take up a collection"
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      "form": "takes up a collection",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken up a collection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, Mark Twain, chapter 20, in Huckleberry Finn",
          "text": "Then somebody sings out, \"Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!\" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, \"Let HIM pass the hat around!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 27, in K: A Novel",
          "text": "\"But I hope nobody's took up a collection for me. I don't want no charity.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 September 17, Jodie Morse, “Campus Crusader”, in Time",
          "text": "When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose."
      ],
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        [
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          "request"
        ],
        [
          "receive",
          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "charitable",
          "charitable"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pass the hat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take up a collection"
}