Definition (通讯)
To initiate a telephone call where the receiving party is responsible for paying the charges.
对方付费电话
Having no money, he had to call collect to get home.
由于没有钱，他不得不打对方付费电话回家。
While she was abroad, she would call collect to her family every evening to let them know she was safe.
她在国外时，每天晚上都会打对方付费电话给家人，让他们知道她很安全。
In those days, long-distance calls were expensive, so many people would call collect.
在那些日子里，长途电话很贵，所以很多人会打对方付费电话。