Definition of collector Collector
/kʌlɛˈktɚ/ - [kulekter] - col•lec•tor
We found 19 definitions of collector from 8 different sources.
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WordNet
NounPlural: collectors |
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| collector - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | ||
| gatherer, accumulator | ||
| worker sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae | ||
| revenue enhancement, tax, taxation charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government | ||
| conductor a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | ||
| gleaner someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | ||
| rent collector a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner | ||
| collector - a person who collects things | ||
| aggregator | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| archivist a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | ||
| conchologist a collector and student of mollusc shells | ||
| coin collector, numismatist, numismatologist a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | ||
| packrat any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | ||
| collector - the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | ||
| electrode a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit | ||
| collector - a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | ||
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Wiktionary 
- collector (Noun)
A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection. - collector (Noun)
A person who is employed to collect payments. - collector (Noun)
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. - collector (Noun)
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. - collector (Noun)
One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- collector (n.)
One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. - collector (n.)
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. - collector (n.)
An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. - collector (n.)
One authorized to collect debts. - collector (n.)
A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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collector
A person or thing that collects.
Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡
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collector
(a) A name for the brush, q. v., in mechanical electric generators, such as dynamos, a pair of which collectors or brushes press on the commutator or collecting rings, and take off the current.(b) The pointed connections leading to the prime conductor on a static machine for collecting the electricity; often called combs. The points of the combs or collectors face the statically charged rotating glass plate or cylinder of the machine.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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collector
A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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collector
A highwayman.
Part of speech
🔤- collector, noun, singular of collectors.
