collector

Definition

• n. a person who collects things
• n. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
• n. a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
• n. the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes

Word forms

Plural

collectors

Example sentences

1. n.

   My uncle is a stamp collector who has over a thousand different stamps from around the world.

2. n.

   The collector came to our house to collect the payment for the monthly bills.

3. n.

   In this experiment, we used a special collector to gather the data from the chemical reactions.