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A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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noun
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
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A person who is employed to collect payments.
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noun
A person who is employed to collect payments.
A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
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noun
The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
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One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
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Usage: historical
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noun
A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
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the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
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Broader terms: electrode
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a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
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a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gatherer, accumulator
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Broader terms: worker
Narrower terms: conductor, gleaner, rent collector, Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner
noun
a person who collects things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: aggregator
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: archivist, conchologist, numismatist, numismatologist, coin collector, packrat, philatelist, stamp collector
History
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Across languages
130 source translations are retained for this English entry.
