Usually means: Manager and organizer of collections.
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  1. curator: Merriam-Webster
  2. curator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curator, curator: Wordnik
  7. curator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curator: Wiktionary
  9. curator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. curator: Dictionary.com
  13. curator: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Curator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Curator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. curator: Rhymezone
  19. Curator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. curator: FreeDictionary.org
  22. curator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. curator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. curator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curator: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. curator: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. curator: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curator: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curator: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
noun:  One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
noun:  A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
noun:  A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
noun:  (cricket) A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

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