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collator

/ ˈkəʊ-; ˈkɒleɪtə; kɒˈleɪtə; kəʊ- /

noun

  1. a person or machine that collates texts or manuscripts
  2. computing a device for matching or checking punched cards in separate files and for merging two or more files sorted into the same ordered sequence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As the collator of all this material, Solomon makes his own emotional and intellectual growth one of the book’s themes, as he describes how his subjects helped him shed the blinders he once wore.

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If the collator put the query directly into the piece, or if the editor tried to make a fix without being sure what the author meant, there was a danger of corrupting the text.

If the collator put the query directly into the piece, or if the editor tried to make a fix without being sure what the author meant, there was a danger of corrupting the text.

“There’s been some shift,” says Molly Malloy, the collator and curator of the most extensive archive of these events in Juárez, and the librarian at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, just across the border.

Eventually, I became what was known as a collator—a Bartleby-like occupation that computers have since done away with.

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