collector

B2
Pronunciation
/kəˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
/kəˈlɛktɚ/
Noun
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

Example Sentences
  • He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
2 Definition

A person who is employed to collect payments.

Example Sentences
  • She works for the government as a tax collector.
3 Definition

The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

4 Definition

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

5 Definition

One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

6 Definition

A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

7 Definition

A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses