collector

noun

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.”

   “The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.”

   “Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.””

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.”

   “I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer”

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. (historical)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.

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.