Meaning

7 senses
  1. A 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

  2. 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)

  3. A person who is employed to collect payments.

    A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

  4. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

    Kollektor

    колле́кторkolléktor

    коле́кторkoléktor

  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.

Examples

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  1. He is something of a stamp collector.

    Він щось на зразок філателіста.

    ruОн в некотором роде филателист.

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  2. This is a collector's item.

    Це колекційний предмет.

    ruЭто коллекционный предмет.

    deDas ist ein Sammlerstück.

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  3. I'm a stamp collector.

    Я збираю марки.

    ruЯ коллекционер марок.

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  4. Tom is an avid art collector.

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  5. Tom is a respected art collector.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
person or thing that collects:
amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor:
Русский
By meaning 2
person or thing that collects:
amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person or thing that collects:
person who is employed to collect payments:
amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin co

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

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