Usually means: Accumulate unused over a period.
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  1. gather dust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. gather dust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. gather dust: Wiktionary
  4. gather dust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. gather dust: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gather dust: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gather dust: Medical dictionary

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  1. gather dust: Idioms

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verb:  To remain unused for a long period of time.

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