collecting
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kəˈlɛktɪŋ/
Noun

collecting

  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
  1. present participle of collect#English|collect



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