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