Definition of Collector

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Collector

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.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.

One authorized to collect debts.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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Collector Quotations

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
Quentin Tarantino

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
Tom Felton

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Joe Shuster

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman

Collector Translations

collector in French is ramasseur, encaisseur
collector in German is Sammel-Elektrode, Sammler, Sammler, Kollektor
collector in Spanish is recolector
collector in Swedish is samlare

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