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English

Alternative forms

• collecter
• collectour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin collig? (“to gather together”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?-l?k't?r
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??l?kt?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l?kt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

collector (plural collectors)

1. A person who or thing that 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.
2. A person who is employed to collect payments.

   She works for the government as a tax collector.

   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

3. (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4. 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.

5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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6. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
7. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

Derived terms

Related terms

• collect
• collection

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?k??nz/
• Hyphenation: col?lec?tions

Noun

collections

1. plural of collection
2. (accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.

   We have sent your account to collections.

3. (accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.

   Sorry, but you'll have to talk with collections.

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
• Rhymes: -sj??
• Homophone: collection
• Hyphenation: co?llec?tions

Noun

collections f

1. plural of collection

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?k.tj??/
• Rhymes: -tj??
• Hyphenation: co?llec?tions

Verb

collections

1. first-person plural imperfect indicative of collecter
2. first-person plural present subjunctive of collecter