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col·lec·tor I. \kəˈlektə(r)\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English colector, collectour, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French collecteur, from Medieval Latin collector one who collects, from Latin collectus (past participle of colligere to bring together) + -or — more at collect 1. : an official who collects funds or moneys: as a. : an officer commissioned to collect and receive revenues b. Britain : one that collects parish alms c. : the administrative head of a district in some provinces of British India d. : one authorized to collect debts and accounts due: as (1) : a clerk or agent who by telephone, correspondence, or personal visits attempts to collect delinquent accounts and sometimes cuts off service or repossesses merchandise if payment is not made (2) : one that makes collection at regular intervals of installment payments or insurance premiums e. : a messenger who acts as a bank's agent in presenting checks, drafts, and money orders to local banks for payment or acceptance f. : one that collects money from coin boxes of public and private pay telephones and computes and pays a percentage refund to subscribers when cash exceeds the maximum guarantee 2. : one that makes a collection < a stamp collector > < a collector of first editions > 3. : an object or device that collects < the statuette was a fine dust collector > < a collector lowered overboard to gather plankton specimens > 4. a. : a conductor maintaining contact between moving and stationary parts of an electric circuit (as one of the tinsel brushes on an induction machine or the third-rail shoe of an electric-railway car) b. : a device (as an electrode) that collects moving electrons c. : the output terminal of a transistor 5. in the flotation process of ore dressing : a chemical used to increase the floating capacity of a mineral II. noun : solar collector herein |