collector
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.
Origin of collector
1Other words from collector
- col·lec·tor·ship, col·lec·tor·ate, noun
- pre·col·lec·tor, noun
- sub·col·lec·tor, noun
- sub·col·lec·tor·ship, noun
- un·der·col·lec·tor, noun
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How to use collector in a sentence
The Collectorship of this port is the best paying office within the gift of the Government.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life | James D. McCabeLudwell, whose conduct had been especially obnoxious, was ousted from the collectorship of York River.
Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 | Thomas J. WertenbakerThe Collectorship at Whitehaven (a more lucrative office) was afterwards offered to Wordsworth, and declined.
English Critical Essays | VariousIt made it possible for them to dictate appointments more important than their own, even to the collectorship itself.
Uncle Sam Detective | William Atherton Du PuyHe was succeeded in the collectorship by Edward Winslow, who held the office till the evacuation of Boston.
The Loyalists of Massachusetts | James H. Stark
British Dictionary definitions for collector
/ (kəˈlɛktə) /
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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