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Meaning of Collector | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
kəˈlɛktɚ

Definitions

  1. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  3. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  4. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
  5. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  6. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  7. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  8. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

Equivalents

Afrikaans versamelaar
العربية الجامع جاب جامع
Български събирач
Dansk samler
Esperanto kolektanto
Galego coleccionista
עברית אספן
हिन्दी कलक्टर
Magyar gyűjtő
Հայերեն հավաքորդ
Lietuvių rinkėjas
Bahasa Melayu pemungut
Nederlands verzamelaar
Română colecționar
Svenska insamlare samlare
Türkçe kolektör
Українська збирач

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.
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