collector

名词 n.
/kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/    /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
    — She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
  2. A person who is employed to collect payments.
    — She works for the government as a tax collector.
  3. A person who is employed to collect payments.; A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
  4. The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
  5. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
    — Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
  6. One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. historical
    — Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
  7. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.

词形变化

collectors plural collecter alternative collectour alternative,obsolete

词源

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