2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collector \Col*lect"or\, n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf
F. collecteur.]
1. 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. --Lamb.
2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages
and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
--Addison.
3. (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. --Sir W.
Temple.
4. One authorized to collect debts.
5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to
superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
collector
n 1: a person who collects things (e.g. stamps) as a hobby
2: a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or
taxes) [syn: {gatherer}, {accumulator}]
3: a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the
earth
4: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow
of carriers leaves the inter-electrode region
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