collector
/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ sustantivo B2En español: coleccionista, colector, recaudador
- 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.
- A person who is employed to collect payments. · She works for the government as a tax collector.
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- 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 sewers.
Plural collectors
De la biblioteca
I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
Had it been carried down from any neighbouring street, it must have passed the station barriers, where a collector is always standing.
"He wanted to get our amiable friend out of his room—that is very clear, and, as the collector never went out, it took some planning to do it.
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