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Meaning
Noun
●
A person who or
thing
that
collects
, or which
creates
or
manages
a collection.
●
A person who is
employed
to
collect
payments.
A
mafioso
whose
task
is to
collect
protection money
from small businesses
●
In Electronics:
The
amplified
terminal
on a
bipolar
junction
transistor.
●
A
compiler
of
books
; one who
collects
scattered
passages
and
puts
them together
in one
book.
●
In Crime & People:
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
sewer
s
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Wiktionary
Origin
collector
English
collect
English
collecte
French
collecta
Latin
collecten
Middle English (1100-1500)
collecter
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
collectare
Latin
colligere
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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