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Collector (noun)
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
“He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.”
“That old piano is just a big dust collector.”
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Collector (noun)
A person who is employed to collect payments.
“She works for the government as a tax collector.”
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Collector (noun)
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
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Collector (noun)
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
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Collector (noun)
One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
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Collector (noun)
a major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
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Collector (noun)
A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
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Collecter (noun)
alternative form of collector
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Collector (noun)
a person who collects things of a specified type, professionally or as a hobby
“an art collector”
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Collector (noun)
an official who is responsible for collecting money
“a tax collector”
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Collector (noun)
an official who collects tickets from bus or train passengers
“the ticket collector closed the gates”
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Collector (noun)
(in some South Asian countries) the chief administrative official of a district.
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Collector (noun)
the region in a bipolar transistor that absorbs charge carriers.