collector

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)//
United States//kəˈlɛk.tɚ//

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

noun

1
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
2
A person who is employed to collect payments.
She works for the government as a tax collector.
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer
3
A person who is employed to collect payments. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
4
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
5
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
6
historicalOne holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
7
A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

Forms

plural: collectors

collection · A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or…collections · A state being beyond merely past due.collective · Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum,…

collector · A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

Collector · A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper…colleen · A girl.Colleen · A female given name from English or Irish.

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