Collect and Justify

Collect

Collect verb - To gain emotional or mental control of.

Justify and collect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Collect".

Justify

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

Collect and justify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collect" instead a verb "Justify".

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

set collect set justify set
amount collect amount justify amount

Both words in one sentence

  • Moving the Goalposts The company decides that in order to justify paying you a certain amount of money, you have to collect a certain amount of garbage per week (which on paper sounds fair enough).
  • Evil Debt Collector In the Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim, if you find a new steward for the Telvanni mage-lord Neloth, an Orc loan shark (complete with an intimidating/"intimidating" bodyguard) will use Insane Troll Logic to justify trying to collect the steward's debt from you .
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