collation
noun
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Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
The solution plugs into manufacturers’ existing systems to automate collection and collation of the quality, compliance and governance data required to secure certifications and regulatory approvals.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
González was selected by the country’s major opposition collation, the Democratic Unitary Platform, following the disqualifications of María Corina Machado and Corina Yoris.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 26 July 2024
The version of the law that passed Thursday — with support from the outgoing collation government of the SPD, Greens and FDP parties — had been watered down from the original version proposed by German culture minister Claudia Roth.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Collation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collation. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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collation
noun
Note: Children and grandchildren of a decedent must return anything that they received in advance by donation inter vivos. Further, they cannot claim legacies made to them unless made expressly by the decedent as an advantage over their coheirs to be received besides their portion of the succession. Donations made to a grandchild by a grandparent during the life of the child's father are not subject to collation. A collation may be made in kind by the actual delivering up of the thing given, or by taking less from the succession in proportion to the value of the thing received in advance.
French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods
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