collection plate

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   a shallow receptacle for collection in church

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Questions about collection plate

What does collection plate mean?

collection plate means "a shallow receptacle for collection in church".

What is another word for collection plate?

Close synonyms include plate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collection plate a common word?

collection plate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.