collector
Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/
The English word “collector” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
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