collector

name

1. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

noun

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

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.”

2. A person who is employed to collect payments.

   “She works for the government as a tax collector.”

   “Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.”

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.

   “Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.”

6. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

   “Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts”

7. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.