collecting

Etymology

collect + -ing

noun

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

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of collect

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