Meaning

• Anything that encircles the neck.

• A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

  "a collar of brawn"

• Any encircling device or structure.

  "A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath."

• (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.

• The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

• A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.

• An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

• An arrest.

• A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

Meaning

• To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

• To place a collar on, to fit with one.

  "Collar and leash aggressive dogs."

• To seize, capture or detain.

• To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

• (law enforcement) To arrest.

• To bind in conversation.

  "I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour."

• To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

• (BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.