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Definition of Collectors
1. collector [n] - See also: collector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collectors
Literary usage of Collectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Taxation in American States and Cities by Richard Theodore Ely, John Huston Finley (1888)
"In other states the collectors merely returned the names of delinquents, and
summary measures ... Bonds and sureties were generally required of collectors. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"Sec. 6. The act to take effect from and after the 10th of March, 1849. EXPLANATIONS
OF THE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM. CIRCULAR INSTRUCTIONS TO THE collectors AND ..."
3. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Franklin Lafayette Riley, Mississippi Historical Society (1902)
"There have been comparatively few collectors of materials relating to ... Only a
few of the papers of those great pioneer collectors, Sir William Dunbar, ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS TO THE collectors. THE collectors appointed under the
recent act of Congress, to collect the national tax, »re making their ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"Here must be brought in the ceasing of collectors' ... Vide the printed cycle
for names of collectors' and how many admitted. 16 Feb., S., went to Weston: ..."
6. The Royal Government in Virginia, 1624-1775 by Percy Scott Flippin, Wallace Everett Caldwell (1918)
"Not to be confused with the collectors of the duties on skins and furs, ...
collectors' accounts of the one penny a pound on tobacco shipped from one colony ..."
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