Collector

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that collects: a dust collector.
  • n. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments.
  • n. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps.
  • n. An electrode collector.
  • n. A solar collector.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  • n. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  • n. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  • n. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  • n. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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..
  • n. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  • n. An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
  • n. One authorized to collect debts.
  • n. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who collects or gathers; especially, one who makes it a pursuit or an amusement to collect objects of interest, as books, paintings, plants, minerals, shells, etc.
  • n. A compiler; one who gathers and puts together parts of books, or scattered pieces, in one book.
  • n. A person employed to collect dues, public or private; especially, an officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs duties, taxes, or toll within a certain district.
  • n. Specifically In British India, the chief administrative official of a zillah or district, charged with the collection of the revenue, and also, except in Bengal proper, possessing certain magisterial powers.
  • n. One of two bachelors of arts in Oxford University who are appointed each Lent to divide the determining bachelors into classes and distribute the schools. Also called Lent collectors.
  • n. A person appointed to care for the estate of a decedent until letters testamentary or of administration upon it are granted.
  • n. In electricity, the upper plate of a disk or condenser, employed for collecting electricity; more generally, any arrangement for collecting electricity.
  • n. [plural] Same as collecting-hairs.
  • n. In the manufacture of artificial silk, a device for collecting and coalescing several collodion filaments from the spinning-apparatus, and then winding them upon bobbins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who collects things
  • n. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
  • n. a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
  • n. the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crater    electrode   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    taxgatherer    toll gatherer    publican    toller    exacter    tollman    scavenger    gabeller    exciseman    procurator   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hector    Rector    Schechter    connecter    connector    defector    detector    director    erector    hector   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scholar    collection    lawyer    editor    merchant    investigator    observer    dealer    photographer    traveller