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# collector

«collector» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who collects things of one kind as a hobby, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a collector, collectors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A collector is a person who collects things of one kind as a hobby, such as stamps, coins, cards or shells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#m1)

2) A collector is a person whose job is to collect money or things, such as a tax collector, a ticket collector or a rubbish collector. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#m2)

3) In science and technology, a collector is a part that gathers something, such as a solar collector that gathers heat from the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a collector is someone who keeps and treasures objects; in everyday life it names jobs that gather money or rubbish. In maths problems collectors often have a number of items that grow or shrink. Phrases: stamp collector, coin collector, debt collector, ticket collector, collector's item.

### examples

- My uncle is a stamp collector with over two thousand stamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x1)
- The ticket collector checked our tickets on the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x2)
- A collector paid a lot of money for the old toy car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x3)
- The rubbish collectors come every Tuesday morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x4)
- This rare card is a real collector's item. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x5)
- A solar collector on the roof warms the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x6)
- The coin collector has 48 coins and buys 12 more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x7)
- The lottery collector pressed me so hard that I thought I should crack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/#x8)

### note

Countable: a collector, collectors. Spelling ends in «-or», not «-er». A «collector's item» is something rare that collectors want. In maths: «a collector has 48 cards and gets 12 more» means add (48 + 12 = 60); «sells» or «gives away» means subtract.

### In the corpora

- ["Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/24/)
- [Old coins and notes can stop being accepted in shops; some banks still swap them, and collectors may want rare ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/11/)
- [Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collector» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collector/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.