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collector

nomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)//
  • États-Unis//kəˈlɛk.tɚ//

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

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  1. 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. 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. 3

    A person who is employed to collect payments. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

  4. 4

    The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

  5. 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. 6

    historiqueOne 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. 7

    A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.

Étymologie

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

Formes

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