collector

[ kuh-lek-ter ]

/ kəˈlɛk tər /

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noun

a person or thing that collects.

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

a person who collects books, paintings, stamps, shells, etc., especially as a hobby.

Electricity. a device for accumulating current from contact conductors.

Electronics. an electrode in a transistor or vacuum tube for collecting electrons, ions, or holes.

Metallurgy. promoter(def 5).

Energy. solar collector.

Words nearby collector

collective security, collective unconscious, collectivism, collectivity, collectivize, collector, collector electrode, collector's item, collectorate, colleen, college

Origin of collector

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin colleg- (variant stem of colligere; see collect¹) + -tor -tor

OTHER WORDS FROM collector

col·lec·tor·ship, col·lec·tor·ate, nounpre·col·lec·tor, nounsub·col·lec·tor, nounsub·col·lec·tor·ship, noun

un·der·col·lec·tor, noun

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Examples from the Web for collector

He was an on-and-off drug addict and sometimes a criminal; he was a collector of switchblades and vintage Disney T-shirts.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings|Melissa Leon|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His friend has dropped hat and cane in shock but the drawing shows stuff that an Americana collector nowadays would kill for.
The Magazine That Made—and Unmade—Politicians|Anthony Haden-Guest|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I never really was the type of collector who had to go out every weekend looking,” Dodge says.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike History|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We all know this person: the collector of vintage guitars who rarely plays, the home cook with more pots than recipes.
What Will Happen to Our Minds in the Future?|Robert Herritt|March 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Fifty years have passed since John Fowles published The Collector, but the novel has not aged.
How to Understand the Criminal Mind By Reading This Novel|Casey N. Cep|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The position of collector of pleasures from every possible source?
De Officiis|Marcus Tullius Cicero
Here one version comes to a sudden end, and the collector who transcribed it, asked: "What?"
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections|Isabel Florence Hapgood
He was an ardent botanist, a collector of insects and molluscs, and one of the pioneers in the anatomy of birds.
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work|P. Chalmers Mitchell
A collector who came here with a proper equipment could not fail to make a large collection of moths.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
The rooms of the collector at Shabatz still smacked of the vicinity to Austria; but here we were with the natives.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family|Andrew Archibald Paton

British Dictionary definitions for collector

collector

/ (kəˈlɛktə) /

noun

a person or thing that collects

a person employed to collect debts, rents, etc

the head of a district administration in India

a person who collects or amasses objects as a hobby

electronics the region in a transistor into which charge carriers flow from the base

Derived forms of collector

collectorship, noun

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