English
collector
Pronunciation
  • (GA) IPA: /kəˈlɛktɚ/
  • (British) IPA: /kəˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Noun

collector (plural collectors)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (electronics) 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.
    • 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
      Volumes […] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
  5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  6. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
  7. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
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