collector

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who gathers and keeps a set of similar things as a hobby.

   She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century stamps.

2. 2
   noun

   A person whose job is to collect money that is owed.

   She works for the government as a tax collector.

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

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