Definitions | collector |
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- A person or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- He is an avid of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust .
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax .
- (context, electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
Translations: - French: collectionneur(fr)
Etymology: English collect< Middle English collecten< colligere ("to gather together", past participle collectus)< com- (together) + legare (to choose)< PIE - leg-, "to pick out, select" (Watkins, 1969)
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