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
Ramgunge, where there is a magistrate, is only forty miles off, and there is a cavalry station about thirty miles farther; so Joseph wrote home to his parents, when he took possession of his collectorship.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
So I will tell you what I am going to do with the collectorship.
From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern
