cobro

collection

noun KOH-broh Rare

Also means

charge

Usage Note

Cobro is the act or process of collecting a payment owed, from cobrar ('to charge/collect'). Cobro revertido is a reverse-charge phone call (collect call in American English). In finance, a gestión de cobro is debt-collection activity. Do not confuse with cobra (the snake), which is unrelated.

Examples

"El cobro de la deuda tardó varios meses."

Natural Translation

The collection of the debt took several months.

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