collector
noun
a person or thing that collects.
collectorship
-
a word derived from
collector.
Example Sentences
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He sought Tom's help, but Tom had promised the collectorship to another.
From Time Magazine Archive
What I really wanted, you see, was this collectorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was ripe for another step up the ladder, and asked Pendergast for the county collectorship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tax collectorship might have followed it, but here Lavinia kept her brother up to the mark.
From Keziah Coffin by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Fifteen years this Pennefather held the collectorship, with five-and-twenty men under him, besides a call on the military whenever he wanted 'em; and in all that time he never made an enemy.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
