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/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ · noun
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection..
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.
Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
She works for the government as a tax collector.
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer
Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
Use collector when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Collector means A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection..
Common synonyms include accumulator, gatherer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
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