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col·lec·tor

(kə-lĕk′tər)

1. One that collects: a dust collector.

2. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments.

3. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps.

4. An electrode collector.

5. A solar collector.

col·lec′tor·ship′ n.

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collector

(kəˈlɛktə)

1. a person or thing that collects

2. (Commerce) a person employed to collect debts, rents, etc

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the head of a district administration in India

4. (Other Non-sporting Hobbies) a person who collects or amasses objects as a hobby

5. (Electronics) electronics the region in a transistor into which charge carriers flow from the base

colˈlectorˌship n

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col•lec•tor

(kəˈlɛk tər)

n.

1. a person or thing that collects.

2. a person employed to collect debts, duties, taxes, etc.

3. a person who collects books, paintings, stamps, etc., as a hobby or investment.

4. solar collector.

[1375–1425; < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin]

col•lec′tor•ship`, n.

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Noun	1.	collector - a person who collects things aggregator individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" archivist - a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives conchologist - a collector and student of mollusc shells coin collector, numismatist, numismatologist - a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) packrat - a collector of miscellaneous useless objects philatelist, stamp collector - a collector and student of postage stamps
	2.	collector - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) accumulator, gatherer worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" conductor - the person who collects fares on a public conveyance gleaner - someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully rent collector - a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner revenue enhancement, tax, taxation - charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
	3.	collector - a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth crater - a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
	4.	collector - the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes electrode - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit electronic transistor, junction transistor, transistor - a semiconductor device capable of amplification

collector

Collectors and enthusiasts

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Translations

جامِع الأشْياءمُحَصِّل

sběratelvýběrčí

samler

Sammler Basis Kassierer Kollektor

συλλέκτης

coleccionista recaudador cobrador

keräilijäkollektoriveronkantajakerääjä

collectionneur collecteur

kolekcionarkolektorsakupljač

gyûjtõ

safnari

collezionista esattore percettore collettore

収集家

수집가

verzamelaar

samler inkassator innsamler oppkrever

kolekcjoner

colecionador

коллекционер коллектор коллекторский коллекционерский

zberateľ

zbiratelj

samlare

นักสะสม

koleksiyoncu

người sưu tầm

收藏家

collector

[kəˈlektəʳ] N [of taxes] → recaudador(a) m/f; [of stamps] → coleccionista mf
collector's item or piece → pieza f de coleccionista
see also ticket C

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

collector

[kəˈlɛktə^r] n

[antiques, stamps, books, plants] → collectionneur/euse m/f

[taxes] → percepteur m

[rent, cash] → encaisseur mcollector's item [kəˈlɛktə^rzaɪtəm] n → pièce f de collectioncollector's piece [kəˈlɛktə^rzpiːs] n → pièce f de collection

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

collector

(of taxes) → Einnehmer(in) m(f); (of rent, cash) → Kassierer(in) m(f); (= ticket collector) Bahnbediensteter, der die abgefahrenen Fahrkarten einsammelt

(of stamps, coins etc) → Sammler(in) m(f); collector’s (item, piece, price) → Sammler-, Liebhaber-; collector’s car → Liebhaberauto nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

collector

[kəˈlɛktəʳ] n (of stamps) → collezionista m/f; (of taxes) → esattore m
collector's item or piece → pezzo da collezionista

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

collect

(kəˈlekt) verb

1. to bring or come together; to gather. People are collecting in front of the house; I collect stamps; I'm collecting (money) for cancer research; He's trying to collect his thoughts.

2. to call for and take away. She collects the children from school each day.

colˈlected adjective

1. gathered together in one book etc. the collected poems of Robert Burns.

2. composed; cool. She appeared quite calm and collected.

colˈlection (-ʃən) noun

1. (an) act of collecting. Your letter won't get to London tomorrow – you've missed the last collection (= of mail from a postbox) for today.

2. a set of objects etc collected. a stamp collection.

colˈlective (-tiv) adjective

1. of a number of people etc combined into one group. This success was the result of a collective effort.

2. of a noun, taking a singular verb but standing for many things taken as a whole. `Cattle' is a collective noun.

noun

a farm or organization run by a group of workers for the good of all of them.

colˈlectively adverb

They were collectively responsible for the man's death.

colˈlector noun

a person who collects, as a job or as a hobby. a ticket-collector / stamp-collector.

collector

→ مُحَصِّل sběratel samler Sammler συλλέκτης coleccionista keräilijä collectionneur sakupljač collezionista 収集家 수집가 verzamelaar samler kolekcjoner colecionador коллекционер samlare นักสะสม koleksiyoncu người sưu tầm 收藏家

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If the federal government is to have collectors of revenue, the State governments will have theirs also.

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Enlightened collectors of old pictures pour into the market by fifties, while genuine specimens of Claude, or of any other Old Master you like to mention, only dribble in by ones and twos.

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A similar superstition was once prevalent, as I have heard, in ancient Greece and Rome; not applying, however (as in India), to a diamond devoted to the service of a god, but to a semi-transparent stone of the inferior order of gems, supposed to be affected by the lunar influences--the moon, in this latter case also, giving the name by which the stone is still known to collectors in our own time.

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The first day, the blood liquefies in forty-seven minutes--the church is crammed, then, and time must be allowed the collectors to get around: after that it liquefies a little quicker and a little quicker, every day, as the houses grow smaller, till on the eighth day, with only a few dozens present to see the miracle, it liquefies in four minutes.

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At last, however, all the things that had to be got together were got together, and all the things that had to be got out of the way were got out of the way, and everything was ready, and the collector himself having promised to come, fortune smiled upon the occasion.

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For upwards of twenty years before this epoch, the independent position of the Collector had kept the Salem Custom-House out of the whirlpool of political vicissitude, which makes the tenure of office generally so fragile.

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Sedley no longer thought of executing her threats with regard to Miss Sharp; for though nothing is more keen, nor more common, nor more justifiable, than maternal jealousy, yet she could not bring herself to suppose that the little, humble, grateful, gentle governess would dare to look up to such a magnificent personage as the Collector of Boggley Wollah.

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"What is there wrong about a miser that is not often as wrong about a collector? What is wrong, except...

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The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of "Collector of Alms" went round to all the brothers.

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Francis Vavassor, 15 a learned French jesuit, entered at greater length on this subject, and produced further proofs from internal evidence, from the use of the word Piraeus in describing the harbour of Athens, a name which was not given till two hundred years after Aesop, and from the introduction of other modern words, that many of these fables must have been at least committed to writing posterior to the time of Aesop, and more boldly suggests Babrias as their author or collector. 16 These various references to Babrias induced Dr.

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"Soon after this," said Grandfather, "Sir William Phips quarrelled with the captain of an English frigate, and also with the collector of Boston.

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The men in the ship told me that he was a collector: some of them had seen his collections.