collector

CEFRC1

/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who gathers or collects things.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

Examples

  • He is something of a stamp collector.

  • The garbage collector comes three times a week.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A person who is employed to collect payments.

  2. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

  3. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

More examples

In context

  • She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

  • She works for the government as a tax collector.

  • That old piano is just a big dust collector.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The stamp blank carefully organized his rare finds by country and year.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).