Collector vs Shopper - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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.
A person who shops.
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A kind of bicycle suited to riding short distances.
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As nouns the difference between collector and shopper
is that collector is a person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection while shopper is a person who shops.collector
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(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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Derived terms
* stamp collectorshopper
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(en noun)Nick Miroff
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- Every conceivable type of cycle's represented; modern stripped down carbon fibre race bikes, state of the art touring machines and humble shoppers , tandems, tandem trikes, racing trikes and shopping trikes, mountain and BMX bikes.