collector

IPA: kʌɫˈɛktɝ

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
A person who is employed to collect payments.
A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

Examples of "collector" in Sentences

I have been an avid coin collector for many years.
If you are a porcelain collector, you can show off all your collections.
I am a much more careful, astute, mature coin collector from the experience.
Being a collector is not always easy, and some things, like these MadMen dolls are just confusing.
Stewart Blay, a leading grading expert and accomplished Barber coin collector, was the underbidder.
While trudging through town I came past the stamp and coin collector's shop and I thought I'd give it a go.
Everyone knows about the average coin collector, key-chain -, piggy-bank - or Barbie doll-collector for example.
Speaking from experience, there are a lot of distractions at the show and a gentle prod from a collector is a good way to remind me to hold a coin.
Though he disdains the term "collector"—"Cars are an emotional love for me; I buy cars because they are romantic and beautiful"—Mr. Lauren's garage is home to some of the most historically important cars in the world: A Scaglietti-bodied Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (1958); a Touring-bodied Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B spider (1938); a rare alloy-bodied Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing (1955) and alloy-bodied Jaguar XKSS (1957).