Meaning & use
collator
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A person or machine that collects and arranges documents or data in a set, logical order.
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The office collator sorted and stapled hundreds of report copies overnight.
As a young clerk, her first job was working as a collator in the print room.
A note on using this word
Now mostly refers to a machine, since most manual document-sorting jobs have been automated by copiers and printers.
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