noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collector's item
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The dolls are real collector's items.
debt collector
garbage collector
tax collector
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
avid
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I am delighted to say that both previous Prime Ministers under whom I served are avid and enthusiastic collectors of that porcelain.
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Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector .
great
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What could be more needed by great collectors ?
private
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Most of the top works went to private collectors faces both old and new.
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Their owner believes they were stolen for a private collector abroad.
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The buyer was not identified, but is thought to be a private collector .
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To have work bought by one of the bigger private collectors could establish reputations, as could publication or exhibition abroad.
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At the time of the Sotheby sales in the 1970s, there was an active group of private collectors .
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The speed and precision of the theft makes it likely that the paintings were stolen under orders from a private collector .
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He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York.
serious
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The main threats to the plants appear to be casual picking by admiring walkers and being dug up by serious collectors .
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That turned him into a serious collector , scouting yard sales, attics, flea markets, estate auctions and used bookstores.
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The pool of serious Constable collectors is small: Lord Thomson of the Fleet is the preeminent name in the field.
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For the serious collector and shopper, a company named Wingspread offers help in focusing your gallery hopping.
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By appointment only, to serious collectors and decorators.
solar
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A solar collector area of around 4m 2 to 5m 2 is usually considered the optimum.
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Large solar collectors would be deployed, probably on roving processing plants, to focus sunlight on to the baking ovens.
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The concept is essentially one of replacing expensive solar collectors and solar cells with tree leaves.
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Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector .
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They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.
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Would not these storms coat solar collectors and solar-cell panels with a thick layer of dust, shutting them down?
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The main difficulty will be in installing the solar collector itself.
■ NOUN
art
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I wonder if he can be Cornelius Fennell, the art collector .
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Like generations of art collectors before him, Thomas Baron enjoys visiting art galleries.
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And even if the signature is original it would only be of value to an autograph hunter not an art collector .
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An experienced archeologist and art collector will lead this trip.
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He meant art collectors , of course.
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Fiction has it that Mrs Marcos was a grand art collector , acquiring beautiful paintings as a testament to her taste.
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Theodor Reinhart was himself an art collector , and was undoubtedly a strong motivating influence on his son.
debt
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The debt collector himself had small debts and was questioned several years ago in Milan over alleged extortion of a client.
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By 1994 there were already 2. 4 debt collectors for each 1, 000 families in the United States.
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Are you going to use your local agents or staff, a debt collector , a solicitor, political pressure or what?
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They're not really bookies these days, they're just debt collectors .
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The college takes 500 pupils from across the world and decided to call in debt collectors as a last resort.
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Most satisfyingly, of course, debt collectors made an enormous number of personal calls, sometimes international ones.
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The debt collector bought up all his debts, and now he owes nearly twice the previous amount.
garbage
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Everybody else became a fireman or a cop or a garbage collector or 3 truck driver.
refuse
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Aylesbury's refuse collectors are out on the job around seven hours a day.
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This was demonstrated in the resettlement of Vila Planetario, a squatter settlement of refuse collectors in the centre of the city.
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Many were formed from the grouping together of small refuse collectors .
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Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion.
stamp
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We asked Gloucester's stamp collectors what they made of today's break with tradition.
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Also patron of clerics, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, stamp collectors , telecommunications workers, and television workers.
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Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector .
tax
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But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny, the Chancellor can not afford to be generous.
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Of course, the very concept of a popular tax collector is as oxymoronic as jumbo shrimp.
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But the rich will always be better at hiding from the tax collector than the poor.
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Also patron of bankers, book-keepers, customs agents, security guards, and tax collectors .
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Do we exclude them in the same way as tax collectors etc.
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Pollution Tax: Many of the unemployed income tax collectors will be retrained as Pollution Inspectors.
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Playing hide and seek with the tax collector is a popular game.
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Within this society their were a number of groups considered as outcasts, of which were included tax collectors .
ticket
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We were advised by the ticket collector to catch an ordinary train, but the train didn't turn up.
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He persuaded the ticket collector to delay a moment longer, and his day brightened as she drew closer.
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So ticket collectors would strike while train drivers worked normally.
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Patiently she waited beside the ticket collector till Gloria came running breathlessly across the station towards her.
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He's also the ticket collector and good friend to the passengers.
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One delegate recounted what an Oxford ticket collector told her.
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He's ticket collector , too.
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On most trains the wheelchair passengers will be cared for by the ticket collector .
■ VERB
become
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In June 1642 he became collector of customs at Hull.
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Making no conscious effort to save or throw away old tickets, they become collectors .
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Auctioneers, Moore Allen say that stuffed animals are becoming very popular among collectors .
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Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art, and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur.
buy
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By that time the householder would need to buy a new collector .
pay
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Clients too could be rude, and no commission was paid to debt collectors for the money they raked in.
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The contributions were paid weekly to door-to-door collectors .
sell
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He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York.
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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
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He's an avid collector of Beatles memorabilia.
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He's been a coin collector for years.
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The gallery was full of art collectors and dealers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although nationally distributed boxes do not change fronts often, the regional ones do, making them a prime target for collectors.
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Prices range from £5-£90, depending on the rarity of the year and the number of collectors within that market.
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Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector .
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The pub will display railway and theatre memorabilia and collectors items.
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The women began producing thousands of rugs a year for sale to tourists and collectors.
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They have to give a written description of the waste to the collectors, and sign a transfer note for it.