Anglo-Indian. [f. prec. + -ATE1.] The district under the jurisdiction of a collector (see COLLECTOR 3).
1825. M. Williams (title), Memoir on the Zilla of Baroche; being the Result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate.
1842. W. T. Humphrey, Let. Presbyters Madras, 8. The Tanjore collectorate … is … famous for its magnificent pagodas.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 122. For revenue purposes, the territory is divided into twenty-one divisions or collectorates.
attrib. 1886. H. A. D. Phillips, Our Admin. in India (title), The revenue and collectorate administration.
b. The residence or place of business of a collector; the staff of officials under a collector.
1859. J. Lang, Wand. India, 326. Others lugged him to their courts and collectorates.
1880. Corr. Chefoo Convention, 2. The withdrawal of the li-hin collectorate from the port Settlements…. Complaining of the action of these very collectorates.
