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单词 collectorship
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collectorshipn.

Etymology: formed as collector n. + -ship suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: coˈllectorship.
1. The office of a collector.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector > office of
collectorship1553
1553 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 4 §2 Their said Office of Collectorship of the said Tenths.
1679 A. Wood Life (1848) 213 This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the bachelors..so that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about 100l. besides their gains.
1701 Answ. to Patrick Hurly's Vind. 10 He was recommended to the Collectorship of the County of Clare.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 180 The Poor Law Board..attempted..to take the collectorship out of the hands of those whom the collection alone concerned.
1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 232 The Collectorship at Whitehaven was..offered to Wordsworth.
1884 Manch. Examiner 17 Nov. 5 3 The contest for a rate collectorship at Ashton.
2. In India; = collectorate n.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under tax-collector in India
zamindari1742
collection1786
collectorship1789
collectorate1825
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > tax district
collection1786
collectorship1789
collectorate1825
taxing district1890
1789 Colebrooke in Life (1873) 35 Some of the districts of this collectorship.
1793 Sir W. Jones in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) (1799) 4 9 In one collectorship..there have lately been found..a million and three hundred thousand native inhabitants.
1800 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 636 In regulating any of the collectorships in Bengal.
3. The practice of a professed collector of curiosities, etc.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > collecting and storing > collecting curiosities, etc.
collecting1706
collectorship1870
1870 Athenæum 15 Oct. 498 The growing spirit of collectorship in the United States.
1883 Dowden in Academy 24 Nov. 342/1 Contributions of real importance to the study of Goethe have been made by the spirit of collectorship aided by scientific criticism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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