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collectorship

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col⋅lec⋅tor

  [kuh-lek-ter]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that collects.
2. a person employed to collect debts, duties, taxes, etc.
3. a person who collects books, paintings, stamps, shells, etc., esp. as a hobby.
4. Electricity. a device for accumulating current from contact conductors.
5. Electronics. an electrode in a transistor or vacuum tube for collecting electrons, ions, or holes.
6. Metallurgy. promoter (def. 5).
7. Energy. solar collector.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (< AF) < ML, equiv. to L colleg- (var. s. of colligere; see collect 1 ) + -tor -tor

Related forms:
col⋅lec⋅tor⋅ship, col⋅lec⋅tor⋅ate, noun
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col·lec·tor   (kə-lěk'tər)   
n.  

  1. One that collects: a dust collector.

  2. A person employed to collect taxes, duties, or other payments.

  3. A person who makes a collection, as of stamps.

  4. An electrode collector.

  5. A solar collector.

col·lec'tor·ship' n.
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