collector

noun

1. 1

   A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

   “He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.”

2. 2

   A person who is employed to collect payments.

   “She works for the government as a tax collector.”

3. 3

   The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

4. 4

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

5. 5

   One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

6. 6

   A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

7. 7

   A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses