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/kəlˈɛktər/ /klˈɛktər/ Listen

noun

Collector n.

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. "I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector."

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. "Volumes without the collector's own reflections."

(Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. "A great part of this is now embezzled... by collectors, and other officers."

One authorized to collect debts.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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Etymology of 'Collector'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collector" Quotes from Famous Books

... swiftest and strongest flyers, such as the Hesperidae, also allow you to approach near to them, feeling confident that they can dart away from any threatened danger—a misplaced confidence, however, so far as the net of the collector is concerned. ...

— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

... heartburnings between Landlord and Tenant, a Government collector of rents shall be appointed, and Tenant-right shall include a power to shoot over the land and ...

— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... new cargo and bring it to Savannah, enter it at the customhouse and pay the import duties. This voyage was covered by number 1. He could then, without disturbing his cargo in the least, clear his vessel for France, and get back from the collector of customs all the duty he had paid except three per cent. He was now exporting goods from the United States and was protected by number 2. This was called "the broken voyage," and by using it thousands of shipowners were enabled to carry goods back ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... day that Kerama invited you to come, I had a call from the Interpol clearinghouse in Paris, a relay from the San Francisco police. A wealthy collector of early Egyptian objects in San Francisco had been bragging that he had just purchased a genuine necklace that had belonged to one of the early Pharaohs. We ...

— The Egyptian Cat Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... Horbury was a bit of a collector of that sort of thing, as you probably saw from his house. This man may have run down to see him about some affair ...

— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher

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