collect vs spend

collect

verb
  • To collect payments. 

  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To infer; to conclude. 

  • To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. 

  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). 

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

adj
  • To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. 

noun
  • The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. 

spend

verb
  • To pay out (money). 

  • To waste or wear away; to be consumed. 

  • To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. 

  • To exhaust, to wear out. 

  • To be diffused; to spread. 

  • To consume, to use up (time). 

  • To break ground; to continue working. 

noun
  • Discharged semen. 

  • Expenditures; money or pocket money. 

  • Vaginal discharge. 

  • Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. 

How often have the words collect and spend occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )