Collector

Definition of Collector

Col`lect´or

n.	1.	One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. - Lamb.
	2.	A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. - Addison.
	3.	(Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. - Sir W. Temple.
	4.	One authorized to collect debts.
	5.	A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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