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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

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collector +‎ -ate

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