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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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