Environmental audit General property audit - collates information on a building or property portfolio in order to establish a long-term strategic plan.Some LEAs have long collated information obtained from schools in such a way that the results might be described as performance indicators.The police Holmes computor system, set up for major crime investigations, is being used to collate information from across Britain.They collate information about their opponent. COLLATE also means collect and combine (texts, information, or data).hence COLLATECOLLECT.when we collate lots of data we do COMPARISON and ANALYSIS.collate information/results/data/figures Although the verb collate specifically means to put pages in a correct order, the word can be used more generally to mean to put anything into the proper. There was, however, abundant evidence of policy in action and the first tasks was to collate what was currently happening.Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary From Collation. The information system used to collate these statistics is presumably extensive and costly. Collate To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement.The two Kirkwall solicitors worked day and night to gather and collate these statements.With the help of her midwifery manager, she raised funds from the hospital to print and collate the material.
Also, supplied with the information system are guides to collating local information and to reordering waiting-room leaflets.They regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism.Please collate and staple ten copies of the report for the meeting.2 GROUP/PUT INTO GROUPS to arrange sheets of paper in the correct order SYN sort - collation / kəˈleɪʃ ən / noun → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus collate to compare (texts, etc.) critically:Collate our findings and see. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English collate col‧late / kəˈleɪt / verb 1 formal FIND OUT to gather information together, examine it carefully, and compare it with other information to find any differences collate information/results/data/figures A computer system is used to collate information from across Britain. collate to arrange (pages) in their proper order:Please collate these copies and staple them.