 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
collector
noun
1: a person who collects things [syn: {aggregator}]
2: a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or
taxes) [syn: {gatherer}, {accumulator}]
3: a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the
earth
4: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow
of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collector \Col*lect"or\, noun [LL. collector one who collects: cf.
F. collecteur.]
1. 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.
I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks
I have been thirty years a collector. --Lamb.
2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages
and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
--Addison.
3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect
and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by
collectors, and other officers. --Sir W.
Temple.
4. One authorized to collect debts.
5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to
superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "collector":
accumulator, addict, admirer, amateur, arbiter,
arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, aspirant, aspirer,
authority, base, beg, beglerbeg, bey, bill collector, bon vivant,
booster, buff, bug, burgrave, candidate, cognoscente,
collection agent, connaisseur, connoisseur, coveter, critic, demon,
desirer, devotee, dey, dilettante, douanier, dunner, eager beaver,
emitter, energumen, enthusiast, eparch, epicure, epicurean, exarch,
exciseman, expert, faddist, fan, fanatic, fancier, farmer, fiend,
filamentary transistor, follower, freak, gatherer, gauleiter,
germanium crystal triode, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, governor,
governor-general, great one for, groupie, hankerer, hobbyist,
hook-collector transistor, hopeful, hound, idolater, idolizer,
infatuate, judge, khedive, lieutenant governor, lover, magpie,
maven, miser, nabob, nawab, nut, pack rat, palatine,
point-contact transistor, proconsul, provincial, pursuer,
refined palate, rhapsodist, rooter, satrap, solicitant, spacistor,
stadtholder, subahdar, sucker for, suitor, tax collector, tetrarch,
tetrode transistor, transistor, unipolar transistor, vali,
vice-king, viceroy, virtuoso, visionary, votary, wali, wanter,
wisher, worshiper, yearner, zealot
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