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Collector
//kəˈlɛktɚ// name, noun
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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.
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."
- 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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- 6 a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) wordnet
- 7 The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- 8 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"
- 11 A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
Etymology
From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
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