A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. / A person who is employed to collect payments. / A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

plural of collector

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

plural of collectorate

(US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse. / (programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.

A release of a product that has additional features or items in it than the regular retail version. In the case of a DVD, this could be behind the scene comments; or a music CD could contain the song text in a special booklet.

a person who collects the tickets of patrons entering a cinema, theatre etc so that they cannot be used again

A person who collects the toll at a toll road or toll bridge. / A device that counts the people going through a turnstile and paying a toll.

plural of tax collector

One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes.