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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- collecter
- collectour (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kə-lĕk'tər
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈlɛktɚ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]collector (plural collectors)
- 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.
- 1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
- The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.
- 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Volumes […] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
- (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- 1655, Anthony Wood, diaries:
- Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
Derived terms
[edit]- Boehm collector
- bow collector
- collectorate
- collectoress
- collector lane
- collector road
- collectorship
- collector shoe
- collector's item
- debt collector
- dust-collector
- fog collector
- garbage collector
- grievance collector
- injustice collector
- juice collector
- kettle fur collector
- noncollector
- pure collector
- refuse collector
- solar collector
- solar thermal collector
- stamp collector
- subcollector
- tax collector
- ticket-collector
- ticket collector
- toll-collector
- undercollector
- wound collector
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person or thing that collects
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person who is employed to collect payments
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amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor
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