Collector vs Collectionist - What's the difference?
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Collectionist has no English definition.
A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
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A person who is employed to collect payments.
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
(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.
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(historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Collectionist is often a misspelling of collector.
Collectionist has no English definition.
As a noun collector
is a person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.collector
English
(wikipedia collector)Alternative forms
* collectour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector .
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- She works for the government as a tax collector .
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- 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.
- Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
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