collector

Meaning

  1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  2. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  3. A person who is employed to collect payments.
  4. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  5. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
  6. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  7. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəˈlɛktɚ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

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