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Collect for a service (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

amass

'collect' is the definition.
(I know that collect can be written as amass)

'a service' is the wordplay.
'service' becomes 'mass' (kind of church service).
'a'+'mass'='AMASS'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for amass that I've seen before include "Gathers" , "Sodium chloride" , "Accumulate, pile up" , "Gather together, pile up" , "store" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Times.
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