Collector

1. n. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
4. n. An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
5. n. One authorized to collect debts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.