1. plural of collator: machines or devices that gather and arrange sheets of paper or documents in proper order
Usage: printing; office equipment
2. plural of collator: people who collect and compare texts or manuscripts to establish accuracy
Usage: academic; scholarly

Examples

• The office purchased new collators to handle the large printing jobs more efficiently.
• These collators can sort up to 500 pages per minute.
• The printing company’s collators automatically organize multi-page documents.
• Medieval manuscript collators worked carefully to preserve ancient texts.
• The team of collators compared different versions of the historical document.
• Modern digital collators have replaced many manual sorting processes.