collector
pronunciation
How to pronounce collector in British English:
UK [kəˈlektə(r)]
How to pronounce collector in American English:
US [kəˈlɛktɚ]
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- Noun:
- a person who collects things
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
- the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
Word Origin
- collector (n.)
- late 14c., "gatherer of taxes, etc.," from Anglo-French collectour "collector" (of money or taxes; Old French collector, Modern French collecteur), from Late Latin collector, agent noun from colligere (see collect). Fem. form collectress is attested from 1825.
Example
- 1. Today , it 's a collector 's item .
- 2. What if another collector turns up looking for something similar ?
- 3. Ziegler took the letter home and sold it to a private collector .
- 4. Lord hertford 's reputation as a discerning , major collector was secured .
- 5. One of the four limos has been sold to a collector from ukraine .