Usually means: Acquiring items of personal interest.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. collecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. collecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. collecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Collecting, collecting: Wordnik
  5. collecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. collecting: Wiktionary
  7. Collecting, collecting: Dictionary.com
  8. collecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Collecting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Collecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. collecting: Rhymezone
  12. Collecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. collecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. collecting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. collecting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. collecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collecting: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collecting: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (collecting)

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

Similar:
collection, assembling, accumulating, amass, collator, retrieving, extract, analyze, distribute, storing, more...

Opposite:
dispersing, scattering, distributing, releasing, discarding

Types:
stamp collecting, coin collecting, bottle collecting, rock collecting, car collecting, train collecting, more...

Phrases:
collecting system, collecting duct, collecting ducts, collecting bank, collecting tubules, more...

Adjectives:
worth, own, tax, book, systematic, intensive, extensive, mere, fossil, further, busy

Colors:
    teal,     burgundy,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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Similar:
collection, assembling, accumulating, amass, collator, retrieving, extract, analyze, distribute, storing, more...

Opposite:
dispersing, scattering, distributing, releasing, discarding

Types:
stamp collecting, coin collecting, bottle collecting, rock collecting, car collecting, train collecting, more...

Phrases:
collecting system, collecting duct, collecting ducts, collecting bank, collecting tubules, collecting tubule, stamp collecting, Book collecting, collecting area, tax collecting, art collecting, collecting dust, more...

Adjectives:
worth, own, tax, book, systematic, intensive, extensive, mere, fossil, further, busy

Colors:
    teal,     burgundy,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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