因為職務而收取
同樣是把東西收攏起來，但動機從喜好換成職責：收的是稅金、車票、欠款或垃圾，而且對方本來就該交。
collector (job) · noun · B2
Someone whose job is to take taxes, tickets, debts, rubbish, or other things from people.
收取人
核心畫面
Picture someone going round gathering things into one place. What changes between the two uses is why: one keeps what they gather because they love it, the other gathers because it is their job and the things are owed.
可以想成：有個人到處把東西收攏到一個地方。兩個用法的差別在「為什麼收」：一個是因為喜歡，收來自己留著；一個是因為那是…更多收起
可以想成：有個人到處把東西收攏到一個地方。兩個用法的差別在「為什麼收」：一個是因為喜歡，收來自己留著；一個是因為那是工作，而且那些東西本來就該交出來。From the picture
Also in this word
hobby collector · noun · B2
Someone who gathers and keeps things that are interesting or attractive, often as a hobby.
收藏家
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Collectorname
- 1
A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
collectornoun/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/
- 1
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- 2
A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- 3
A person who is employed to collect payments.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityThe amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- 5
A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
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historicalOne holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts
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A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。