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A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
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He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
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A person who is employed to collect payments.
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She works for the government as a tax collector.
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The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
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A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
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One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
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A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
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A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses