Word Meanings - COLLECTORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Related words: (words related to COLLECTORATE)

• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• COLLECTOR
  An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts
• COLLECTORSHIP
  The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.