Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The district of a collector; a collectorship; specifically, an administrative district, or zillah, of British India under the jurisdiction of a collector. See
collector , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
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- noun The
district of acollector ofcustoms ; acollectorship .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The above explicit mention of a wish to keep the "religious" distinct from matters of the collectorate is only the most obvious example.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party shout slogans outside the Rangareddy district collectorate during a protest against price hike of essential commodities in Hyderabad, India, January 25, 2010.
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Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party shout slogans outside the Rangareddy district collectorate during a protest against price hike of essential commodities in Hyderabad, India, January 25, 2010.
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Delivering a special address at a seminar on ‘Recharging of wells and ground water augmentation scheme’ held at the collectorate here on Wednesday evening, he said that the main objective of the scheme was to recharge existing dug wells using rainfall from agricultural fields to improve groundwater table in affected areas.
30,000 Wells Would be Recharged through Special Groundwater Augmentation Scheme in Theni 2008
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The bodies are still lying in front of the collectorate.
Land clash sets off tit-for-tat game- Left settles Nandigram scores with sack cry Abhay N 2007
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The programme would be organised till December 29 and the party activists would mob the collectorate on December 30, Ranga Rao said.
Archive 2006-12-01 Abhay N 2006
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The programme would be organised till December 29 and the party activists would mob the collectorate on December 30, Ranga Rao said.
New Democracy demands funds for Dummugudem Abhay N 2006
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Note to the Government warning it of the necessity for immediately securing the removal of the obstruction to the traffic and to the operations of the foreign collectorate.
The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921
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Wu-Pei-Fu [the Liberal military leader] has installed himself in the collectorate at Hankow, and is endeavouring to appropriate the receipts for his powerful master.
The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921
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It comprises the whole collectorate of South Canara, and a portion of Malabar from
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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