English-Portuguese translations for collector

• colector
  Objecto: Não reconhecimento de normas europeias para colectores e sistemas termosolares Subject: Non-recognition of European standards relating to solar thermal collectors and systems
  . (EN) A Comissão gostaria de frisar que os colectores e sistemas termosolares não são regulamentados a nível comunitário. The Commission would like to stress that solar thermal collectors and systems are not regulated at Community level.
  Entre outros, pretende-se instalar 15 milhões de metros quadrados de colectores solares e obter 10 000 megawatts a partir da energia eólica e 10 000 megawatts a partir da biomassa. Among other things, 15 million square metres of solar collectors are to be erected. 10,000 megawatts are to be obtained from wind power and a further 10,000 megawatts from biomass.
• coletor
• cobrador
  Está tão furioso que se sente disposto a enviar a minha equipa de cobradores a casa do devedor? Are you angry enough to send my team of collectors around to the debtor's premises?
  Esta remonta ao tempo de Deus Nosso Senhor, quando este observou que uma das personagens mais desprezadas desse tempo era o cobrador de impostos, que era visto como o chamado mau da fita. 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.
  A recordação predominante que o povo do Kosovo tem dos sérvios é de soldados, polícias, cobradores de impostos, guardas prisionais, funcionários inamistosos e governantes indesejados. The predominant memory that the people of Kosovo have of the Serbs is that of soldiers, police, tax collectors, prison wardens, unfriendly officials and unwanted rulers.
• colecionador
• trocador

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