collectour

Noun

collector (plural collectors)

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. A person who is employed to collect payments.
   • She works for the government as a tax collector.
   1. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
3. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4. 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.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
   • Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts1655, Anthony Wood, diaries

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