The phrase "a collection agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person or company that collects debts on behalf of another party.
Example: "After several attempts to collect the overdue payment, the company decided to hire a collection agent to recover the funds."
Alternatives: "debt collector" or "collection agency".
It could be a collection agent from Sears or the modeling school or the bank.
The company said it had legitimate customers for its tickets and Mallon was acting as a collection agent for them in Rio, meeting clients.
The scam consumed Mr. Vera's tax refund and put him in the red by $6,700 to Chase, which sent his case to a collection agent.
He got out of the Air Force and moved back to Chicago and he did a bunch of different things — he was a collection agent for State Farm Insurance and then ended up as a salesman for a coal company.
"More than the fear of losing our property would be the shame, in front of our neighbors, of having a collection agent show up on our doorstep," she said.
"The children of the upper classes don't know how to do anything, except party," said Arturo García, 44, a collections agent, who enjoyed the movie.
"All of it was negative, it was just, 'He did this,' 'She did this,' " Ms. Harmon, a collections agent for Bell South, said while eating lunch with friends in Greensboro.
And before I worked the phones as a collections agent, I was required to read the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, which limits what lenders can say and do in the process of attempting to get borrowers to repay their debts.
As it is, a principal is open to ridicule in the tabloids if he denies a child a lunch or a reduction in his budget if he isn't a ruthless collection agent.
A Compartamos collection agent visits each group every week, riding public buses out to villages.
First there was the $133 million Mega Millions jackpot won by Aubrey Boyce, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority collection agent from Kew Gardens.
