collection agency

noun

1. a firm that collects unpaid bills for other firms and is usually compensated by receiving a percentage of the amount collected.

Example Sentences

The feckless disaster relief agency had become a feckless debt collection agency.

From The Daily Beast

“We tell them, ‘You put us in touch with that collection agency,’” DePriest says.

From The Daily Beast

Of course James went in, and found a futurist painter wrestling with the agent of a collection agency.

From Project Gutenberg