Definition of "tax collector" []

• One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes. (noun)

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• "When Pierre Crozat was seventeen years old, his father gave him the large sum of twenty thousand livres and fixed him up with his first job as tax collector for the Toulouse diocese of St. Papoul."
• "Interestingly, in Jewish society today, the job title tax collector has become synonymous with the word sinner!"
• "Antoine possessed an almost Midas-like talent for making money, and he had rapidly built up sufficient wealth as a tax collector to begin exploiting foreign trade."