Collector
Definitions
- A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
Equivalents
31 more languages
Afrikaansversamelaar
Българскисъбирач
Bosanskikolekcionarkolektorsabiračsabiračkisakupljačskupljačskupljačicaколекторсабирачсабирачкисакупљачскупљачскупљачица
Dansksamler
Esperantokolektanto
Galegocoleccionista
עבריתאספן
हिन्दीकलक्टर
Hrvatskikolekcionarkolektorsabiračsabiračkisakupljačskupljačskupljačicaколекторсабирачсабирачкисакупљачскупљачскупљачица
Magyargyűjtő
Հայերենհավաքորդ
Lietuviųrinkėjas
Bahasa Melayupemungut
Nederlandsverzamelaar
Românăcolecționar
Српскиkolekcionarkolektorsabiračsabiračkisakupljačskupljačskupljačicaколекторсабирачсабирачкисакупљачскупљачскупљачица
Türkçekolektör
Українськазбирач
Examples
“She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.”
“That old piano is just a big dust collector.”
“The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press⟳, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study⟳ of a particular subject.”
“Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get⟳ enough booty to win⟳ the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate⟳ pirates.””
“She works for the government as a tax collector.”
“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.”
“I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like⟳ a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer⟳”
“Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own⟳ reflections.”
“Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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