collectors
- 1Plural of collector.
Art collectors flocked to the auction hoping to secure the painting.
The museum borrowed several pieces from private collectors across the country.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s like other agent nouns in -or, and it carries every meaning of the singular. Context sorts them out: private collectors buy art, payment collectors chase what is owed, a gang's collectors gather protection money, and in electronics collectors are the amplified terminals of bipolar junction transistors. Oxford once had collectors too: bachelors who superintended scholastic proceedings in Lent.
collectors is a form of collector
collector, noun: A person, or sometimes a device, that gathers items together or builds and manages a collection. Full entry
- Forms
- collectorcollectors plural
- Spelling
- collector → collectors: add -s
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