Collector
WordNet
noun
(1) The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
(2) A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
(3) A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
(4) A person who collects things
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Etymology
English collect< Middle English collecten< colligere ("to gather together", past participle collectus)< com- (together) + legare (to choose)< (Watkins, 1969)
Noun
- A person or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.