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Definition collector

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin collig? (“to gather together”), from com- (“together”) + leg? (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to pick out, select”) (Watkins, 1969)

Noun

collector (plural collectors)

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. (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
6. a major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
7. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

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