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Webster 1828 Edition


Collecting

COLLECTING

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ppr.
Gathering; drawing together; assembling.

Definition 2024


collecting

collecting

English

Noun

collecting (countable and uncountable, plural collectings)

  1. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
    • 2009, Melissa A Hardy, Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis, page 568:
      The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.

Translations

Verb

collecting

  1. present participle of collect