rent collector
- noun
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cobrador de alquiler
- As a rent collector, she needed to keep track of which tenants were late with their payments.
Examples
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I'm just your little rent collector.
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They had never sat down with her before unless they had been too sick to stand, whether she came as their rent collector or their Lady Bountiful.
Fiction book (1995) -
The rent collector knocked on the door to collect the payment for this month's rent.
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Every month, the reliable rent collector visits our building to ensure everyone pays on time.
Synonyms
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2.8
A person whose job is to get money that others owe
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5.8
A person who collects money people owe, like rent or taxes
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who collects rents' is directly and compositionally derived from 'rent' (recurring payment for using property) + 'collector' (a person who collects money). This is a regular compound noun following a common noun+noun pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Rent collector paints a simple picture: rent is the money people pay to live somewhere, and a collector goes door to door to take that money. So a rent collector is 'a person whose job is to go from house to house collecting rents'.