COLLECTOR


Meaning of COLLECTOR in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

collector's item

The dolls are real collector's items.

debt collector

garbage collector

tax collector

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

avid

I am delighted to say that both previous Prime Ministers under whom I served are avid and enthusiastic collectors of that porcelain.

Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector .

great

What could be more needed by great collectors ?

private

Most of the top works went to private collectors faces both old and new.

Their owner believes they were stolen for a private collector abroad.

The buyer was not identified, but is thought to be a private collector .

To have work bought by one of the bigger private collectors could establish reputations, as could publication or exhibition abroad.

At the time of the Sotheby sales in the 1970s, there was an active group of private collectors .

The speed and precision of the theft makes it likely that the paintings were stolen under orders from a private collector .

He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York.

serious

The main threats to the plants appear to be casual picking by admiring walkers and being dug up by serious collectors .

That turned him into a serious collector , scouting yard sales, attics, flea markets, estate auctions and used bookstores.

The pool of serious Constable collectors is small: Lord Thomson of the Fleet is the preeminent name in the field.

For the serious collector and shopper, a company named Wingspread offers help in focusing your gallery hopping.

By appointment only, to serious collectors and decorators.

solar

A solar collector area of around 4m 2 to 5m 2 is usually considered the optimum.

Large solar collectors would be deployed, probably on roving processing plants, to focus sunlight on to the baking ovens.

The concept is essentially one of replacing expensive solar collectors and solar cells with tree leaves.

Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector .

They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.

Would not these storms coat solar collectors and solar-cell panels with a thick layer of dust, shutting them down?

The main difficulty will be in installing the solar collector itself.

■ NOUN

art

I wonder if he can be Cornelius Fennell, the art collector .

Like generations of art collectors before him, Thomas Baron enjoys visiting art galleries.

And even if the signature is original it would only be of value to an autograph hunter not an art collector .

An experienced archeologist and art collector will lead this trip.

He meant art collectors , of course.

Fiction has it that Mrs Marcos was a grand art collector , acquiring beautiful paintings as a testament to her taste.

Theodor Reinhart was himself an art collector , and was undoubtedly a strong motivating influence on his son.

debt

The debt collector himself had small debts and was questioned several years ago in Milan over alleged extortion of a client.

By 1994 there were already 2. 4 debt collectors for each 1, 000 families in the United States.

Are you going to use your local agents or staff, a debt collector , a solicitor, political pressure or what?

They're not really bookies these days, they're just debt collectors .

The college takes 500 pupils from across the world and decided to call in debt collectors as a last resort.

Most satisfyingly, of course, debt collectors made an enormous number of personal calls, sometimes international ones.

The debt collector bought up all his debts, and now he owes nearly twice the previous amount.

garbage

Everybody else became a fireman or a cop or a garbage collector or 3 truck driver.

refuse

Aylesbury's refuse collectors are out on the job around seven hours a day.

This was demonstrated in the resettlement of Vila Planetario, a squatter settlement of refuse collectors in the centre of the city.

Many were formed from the grouping together of small refuse collectors .

Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion.

stamp

We asked Gloucester's stamp collectors what they made of today's break with tradition.

Also patron of clerics, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, stamp collectors , telecommunications workers, and television workers.

Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector .

tax

But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny, the Chancellor can not afford to be generous.

Of course, the very concept of a popular tax collector is as oxymoronic as jumbo shrimp.

But the rich will always be better at hiding from the tax collector than the poor.

Also patron of bankers, book-keepers, customs agents, security guards, and tax collectors .

Do we exclude them in the same way as tax collectors etc.

Pollution Tax: Many of the unemployed income tax collectors will be retrained as Pollution Inspectors.

Playing hide and seek with the tax collector is a popular game.

Within this society their were a number of groups considered as outcasts, of which were included tax collectors .

ticket

We were advised by the ticket collector to catch an ordinary train, but the train didn't turn up.

He persuaded the ticket collector to delay a moment longer, and his day brightened as she drew closer.

So ticket collectors would strike while train drivers worked normally.

Patiently she waited beside the ticket collector till Gloria came running breathlessly across the station towards her.

He's also the ticket collector and good friend to the passengers.

One delegate recounted what an Oxford ticket collector told her.

He's ticket collector , too.

On most trains the wheelchair passengers will be cared for by the ticket collector .

■ VERB

become

In June 1642 he became collector of customs at Hull.

Making no conscious effort to save or throw away old tickets, they become collectors .

Auctioneers, Moore Allen say that stuffed animals are becoming very popular among collectors .

Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art, and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur.

buy

By that time the householder would need to buy a new collector .

pay

Clients too could be rude, and no commission was paid to debt collectors for the money they raked in.

The contributions were paid weekly to door-to-door collectors .

sell

He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York.

By the time De Lorean closed, more than 18,000 cars had been made but only 9,000 were sold , mainly to collectors .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He's an avid collector of Beatles memorabilia.

He's been a coin collector for years.

The gallery was full of art collectors and dealers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although nationally distributed boxes do not change fronts often, the regional ones do, making them a prime target for collectors.

Prices range from £5-£90, depending on the rarity of the year and the number of collectors within that market.

Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector .

The pub will display railway and theatre memorabilia and collectors items.

The women began producing thousands of rugs a year for sale to tourists and collectors.

They have to give a written description of the waste to the collectors, and sign a transfer note for it.

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