Usually means: Gathered information slowly and carefully.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word gleaned:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. gleaned: Merriam-Webster
  2. gleaned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gleaned: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gleaned, gleaned: Wordnik
  5. gleaned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gleaned: Wiktionary
  7. Gleaned, gleaned: Dictionary.com
  8. gleaned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gleaned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Gleaned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. gleaned: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. gleaned: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gleaned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gleaned: Legal dictionary

(Note: See glean as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glean)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
verb:  To collect fruit, grain, or other produce from (a field, an orchard, etc.), after the main gathering or harvest.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
verb:  To take away (someone's) possessions; to strip (someone) bare.
verb:  (zoology) Of an animal, especially a bat or a bird: to feed by picking up or plucking (prey, mainly arthropods such as insects) from various places.
verb:  (obsolete) To collect or gather (things) into one mass.
verb:  (obsolete, military) To cut off (straggling soldiers separated from their units) during a conflict; to isolate.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To collect fruit, grain, or other produce after the main gathering or harvest.
verb:  (zoology) Of an animal, especially a bat or a bird: to feed by picking up or plucking prey, mainly arthropods such as insects, from various places.
noun:  (obsolete except UK, dialectal) A collection of something made by gleaning.
noun:  (obsolete) The afterbirth or placenta of an animal, especially a cow or sheep.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Of an animal, especially a cow or sheep: to deliver its afterbirth or placenta.
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