Collector /(?)/
Col·lect·or
Collector
n.
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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.
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A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
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An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. (Com.)
A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers.
- One authorized to collect debts.
- A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.