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