| Meaning | A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). |
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| Synonyms | collector, accumulator |
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| Category | tax, taxation, revenue enhancement | Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government |
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| Instances | Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner | United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924) |
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| Narrower | conductor | The person who collects fares on a public conveyance |
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| gleaner | someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully |
| rent collector | A person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner |
| Broader | worker | A person who works at a specific occupation |
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| Spanish | cobrador |
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