collector.
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
Meaning & usage
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
A person who is employed to collect payments.
She works for the government as a tax collector.
A person who is employed to collect payments. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
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