collector
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collectionA person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
» He is something of a stamp collector.
Он в некотором роде филателист.
Он вроде как филателист.
Он в некотором смысле филателист.
Він щось на зразок філателіста.
Meaning
7 sensesA person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
Sammler, Sammlerin
коллекционе́рkollekcionér, сбо́рщикsbórščik
колекціоне́рkolekcionér, збира́чzbyráč
a person who collects things
A person who is employed to collect payments.
She works for the government as a tax collector.
Kassierer
збира́чzbyráč
a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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.
Kollektor
колле́кторkolléktor
коле́кторkoléktor
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(historical)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.
Examples
70 sentencesHe is something of a stamp collector.
Він щось на зразок філателіста.
ruОн в некотором роде филателист.
This is a collector's item.
Це колекційний предмет.
ruЭто коллекционный предмет.
deDas ist ein Sammlerstück.
I'm a stamp collector.
Я збираю марки.
ruЯ коллекционер марок.
Tom is an avid art collector.
Tom is a respected art collector.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
By meaning 3
Origin
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin coInherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
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Forms
plural: collectorsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes):gathereraccumulator
- a person who collects things:aggregator
Word family
32 related wordsCollocations
3 patterns- a stamp collector
- stamp collector
- art collector