English-Italian translations for collector

• collettore
• collezionista
• esattore
  Questo ci riporta ai tempi di nostro Signore, quando egli sottolineò che una delle specie più disprezzate del suo tempo era l'esattore delle imposte, che veniva visto come un malvagio. This goes back to the time of our Lord, when he pointed out that one of the most despised species in his time was the tax collector, who was seen as a villain.
• esattrice

Definition of collector

• A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection
• A person who is employed to collect payments
• The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor
• 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

• He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
• That old piano is just a big dust collector.
• She works for the government as a tax collector.

Related words

• ticket-collector
• collectorate
• collector's item
• collector's edition
• collector’s item
• stamp collector
• tax collector
• garbage collector
• current collector