What does "collector" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "collector"?

Common synonyms include: accumulator, accumulator, addict, admirer, aggregator, amasser.

//kəˈlɛktɚ// name, noun

name, noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

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A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
"She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps."
2
the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes wordnet
3
A person who is employed to collect payments.
"She works for the government as a tax collector."
4
a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth wordnet
5
A person who is employed to collect payments.; A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

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a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) wordnet
7
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
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a person who collects things wordnet
9
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."
10
One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. historical
"Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts"
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A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

Proper Noun

1
A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.