Collector
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
(2): (n.) One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
(3): (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(4): (n.) One authorized to collect debts.
(5): (n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(ἄρχων φορολογίας, chief of the tribute-levy ), a tax-gatherer ( 1 Maccabees 1:29). (See Publican).
