collector
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- collectour (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
English collect< Middle English collecten< Latin colligere ("to gather together", past participle collectus)< com- (together) + legare (to choose)< Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to pick out, select”) (Watkins, 1969)
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: kō-lĕk'tûr or kə-lĕk'tûr or kə-lĕk'tər
[edit] Noun
collector (plural collectors)
- A person or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- 1668 July 3ʳᵈ, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
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[edit] Translations
person or thing that collects
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person who is employed to collect payments
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