English-Spanish translations for collector

• colector
• coleccionista
  Por solicitud del Parlamento Europeo, los vehículos de coleccionistas quedarán ahora excluidos expresamente del ámbito de la presente directiva. At the request of the European Parliament, collector's vehicles will now be expressly excluded from the scope of this directive.
  La Directiva no se aplicará a los coleccionistas de armas y munición, ni a los servicios públicos, ni a las instituciones culturales o históricas. The directive will not apply to weapons and ammunition collectors, to public services or to cultural and historical institutions.
• recaudador
  Todo ello se remonta a la época de nuestro Señor, cuando señaló que una de las profesiones más despreciadas en su época eran los recaudadores de impuestos, que eran considerados los malos. 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.

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