collected

American  

[kuh-lek-tid] / kəˈlɛk tɪd /

adjective

1. having control of one's faculties; self-possessed.

   Despite all the turmoil around him, Bob remained calm and collected.

2. brought or placed together; forming an aggregation from various sources.

   the money collected to build an orphanage; the collected essays of Thoreau.

3. Manège.

   1. (of a moving horse) noting a compact pose in which the legs are well under the body, the head is arched at the poll, the jaw is relaxed, etc.

   2. (of a gait of such a horse) characterized by short, elevated strides.

---

collected British  

/ kəˈlɛktɪd /

adjective

1. in full control of one's faculties; composed

2. assembled in totality or brought together into one volume or a set of volumes

   the collected works of Dickens

3. (of a horse or a horse's pace) controlled so that movement is in short restricted steps

   a collected canter

---

collected Idioms  

1. see cool, calm, and collected.

---

Related Words

See calm.

Other Word Forms

• collectedly adverb
• collectedness noun
• uncollected adjective
• well-collected adjective

Etymology

Origin of collected

First recorded in 1600–10; collect ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Experts describe “surveillance wages” as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.

From MarketWatch

These cans contained fillets from four species collected over a 42-year span in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

From Science Daily

Researchers compared samples collected with and without a preservative and found 98.75% agreement between results, showing that the preservative did not interfere with the test.

From Science Daily

They collected skin cells from patients and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can develop into many different cell types.

From Science Daily

FedEx and United Parcel Service have pledged to return tariffs they collected directly from their customers.

From The Wall Street Journal