Definition of Collector

Collector

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.

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

An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.

One authorized to collect debts.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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Collector Quotations

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
Quentin Tarantino

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
Tom Felton

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
Joshua Homme

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
Jason Mewes

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Joe Shuster

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard MacDonald

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
Michael Gambon

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams

I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.
Marcel Dionne

I'm a huge poster collector.
Illeana Douglas

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
Craig McCracken

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Terry Southern

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Olafur Eliasson

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Edward G. Robinson

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Collector Translations

collector in French is ramasseur, encaisseur
collector in German is Sammel-Elektrode, Sammler, Sammler, Kollektor
collector in Spanish is recolector
collector in Swedish is samlare

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