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Collector   /kəlˈɛktər/  /klˈɛktər/   Listen
Collector

noun
1.
A person who collects things.  Synonym: aggregator.
2.
A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).  Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer.
3.
A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth.
4.
The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes.



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"Collector" Quotes from Famous Books



... continually uttering generous sentiments, and saying fine things. On him, as on his brethren, the world presses with its prosaic needs. He has to make love and marry, and run the usual matrimonial risks. The income-tax collector visits him as well as others. Around his head at Christmas-times drives a snow-storm of bills. He must keep the wolf from the door, and he has only his goose-quills to confront it with. And here it is, having ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith
... For one of the surest ways of succeeding in the theatre is to sum up and present dramatically all that the crowd has been thinking for some time concerning any subject of importance. The dramatist should be the catholic collector and wise interpreter of those ideas which the crowd, in its conservatism, feels already ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton
... certainly not the most pleasant way of spending the festive season. In company with detectives, clergymen, or self-sacrificing district visitors, you may swallow the pill with the silver on; but try it single-handed, and it is a very different affair. I was taken for some demon rent-collector prowling about, and was peered at through broken windows and doors, and received with language warm enough to thaw the icicles. The sketches I made during the weeks I spent in the haunts of want and misery would have made ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... confused by a hundred duties pressing upon him all at once, he discharges the claim forthwith. In about fifteen minutes, another and less reasonable bill is handed him by one who soon makes it evident that the first collector was a diddler, and the ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... insinuate that in addition to the British Ensign under which they sailed, another flag of a duskier hue was kept in a convenient locker, and was occasionally hoisted when the owner felt inclined to indulge his tastes as a collector of works of art, or to act as a Marine Agent. I do not believe one word of it, and emphatically decline to associate such kindly people with such dubious proceedings, even if a hundred and fifty years have elapsed ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton


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