English Explanatory Dictionary

collector

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  2. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  3. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
  4. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  5. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  6. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  7. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
name
  1. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Pronunciation

kə-lĕk′tər /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-collector.wav

Word forms

collector collectors collecter collectour

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

Related words

collect collection

Derived words

Boehm collector bone collector bow collector collectorate collectoress collector lane collector road collectorship collector shoe collector's item debt collector dust-collector fog collector garbage collector grievance collector injustice collector juice collector kettle fur collector noncollector pure collector refuse collector solar collector solar thermal collector stamp collector subcollector tax collector ticket-collector ticket collector toll-collector undercollector wound collector

Translations

Bulgarian: инкасатор Catalan: col·lector Catalan: recaptador Cebuano: kolektor Czech: výběrčí Danish: indsamler Danish: opkræver Danish: skatteopkræver Finnish: veronkantaja French: percepteur French: encaisseur French: collecteur German: Kassierer Italian: esattore Italian: esattrice Khmer: អ្នកទារពន្ធ Latin: coactor Māori: kaikohi Portuguese: coletor Spanish: colector Spanish: recaudador Ukrainian: збира́ч
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