"amasser" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1677, John Webster, chapter 4, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, London, page 59",
          "text": "[He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.",
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          "text": "1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,\nThe amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world."
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          "text": "1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,\nSome folks collect paintings,\nSome folks collect stamps,\nSome are amassers\nOf antimacassars\nAnd other Victorian camps."
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          "text": "1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,\nThe first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser."
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          "ref": "2014, Judith Donath, chapter 11, in The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 280",
          "text": "Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.",
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        "One who amasses."
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          "word": "accumulator"
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          "sense": "one who amasses",
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          "word": "amontoador"
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        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "one who amasses",
          "word": "biriktirici"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "one who amasses",
          "word": "biriktiren"
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        },
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          "text": "1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,\nSome folks collect paintings,\nSome folks collect stamps,\nSome are amassers\nOf antimacassars\nAnd other Victorian camps."
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      "sense": "one who amasses",
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      "word": "amontoador"
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      "sense": "one who amasses",
      "word": "biriktirici"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who amasses",
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