Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia aggregator)

Someone or something which aggregates.

(internet) An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

That old piano is just a big dust collector .

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A person who is employed to collect payments.

She works for the government as a tax collector .

* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector , and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.

(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

* Addison

Volumes without the collector's own reflections.

(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

(Todd)

(Webster 1913)