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collecting

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noun
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As a noun, collecting means a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

Meanings of collecting

2 meanings

noun

  1. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

  2. The act of gathering something together

    Similar: collection, assembling, aggregation

verb

Present participle of collect

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: the act of gathering something together
collectionassemblingaggregation

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