collector
noun
a person or thing that collects.
collectorship
-
a word derived from
collector.
Example Sentences
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He was ripe for another step up the ladder, and asked Pendergast for the county collectorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
What I really wanted, you see, was this collectorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sought Tom's help, but Tom had promised the collectorship to another.
From Time Magazine Archive
The collectorship of the port of New York was vacant.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
A more lucrative office—the collectorship of Whitehaven—was subsequently offered to him; but he declined it, "nor would exchange his Sabine valley for riches and a load of care."
From Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
