Meaning & use
collection location
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Meanings
nouncountable
A place where someone goes to pick up goods, documents, or other items that have been kept for them.
Grammar: Countable, so it takes a/an or a plural: a collection location, several collection locations.
Patterns
- a collection location for something
- arrange a collection location
- the collection location for an order
The email gives you a collection location and a time slot for picking up your parcel.
Please choose a collection location near your office when you place the order.
Staff moved the collection location to the front desk after the old room was closed.
nouncountabletechnical
A place where an organization keeps things it has gathered together, such as records, samples, or books.
Grammar: Countable and often followed by of: the collection location of the samples.
Patterns
- the collection location of something
- a collection location for samples
- store something at a collection location
The museum lists the collection location of each item in its online catalog.
Researchers recorded the collection location of every water sample on a map.
The archive's collection location is kept secret to protect the documents.
Word forms
| plural | collection locations |
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Common combinations
- designated collection location
- Drivers must leave the keys at the designated collection location.
- nearest collection location
- The app shows the nearest collection location on a map.
- collection location and time
- Your collection location and time are printed on the receipt.
- change the collection location
- You can change the collection location up to an hour before pickup.
- a list of collection locations
- The website has a list of collection locations across the city.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pickup point
- More common and more informal; it usually means the same thing and sounds natural in everyday speech.
- collection point
- Almost the same, but it often refers to a spot inside a building rather than a whole address.
- depot
- A larger building where goods are stored, not just a spot where you collect them.
Word family
- collect verb
- to go and get something from a place
- collection noun
- the act of collecting something, or a group of collected things
- collector noun
- a person who collects things or money
Commonly confused: collection location or delivery location? collection location or location collection?
collection location vs delivery location
A delivery location is where goods are brought to you; a collection location is where you go to get them yourself.
collection location vs location collection
This reversed order is not used in English; the usual phrase is collection location.
Practice
Which sentence uses "collection location" correctly?
Choose one answer.
"Collection location" is a countable noun, so it fits after "the" as the subject of the sentence. The other options use it as a verb, which it is not.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “collection location”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.