Collector

//kəˈlɛktɚ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 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. 2
    the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who is employed to collect payments.

    "She works for the government as a tax collector."

  4. 4
    a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) wordnet
  2. 7
    The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  3. 8
    a person who collects things wordnet
  4. 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."

  5. 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"

  6. 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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