Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which gathers or collects: frequent in compounds: as, a tax-gatherer; a news-gatherer.
- noun Specifically One who gets in a crop: as, a hay-gatherer.
- noun In bookbinding, one who collects the printed sheets of a book in consecutive order.
- noun One who makes plaits or folds in a garment, or a contrivance in a sewing-machine for effecting this.
- noun Formerly, the man who took the money at the entrance to a theater.
- noun In glass manufacturing, a workman who collects a mass of molten glass from the pot, on the end of an iron rod or pipe, usually as a preliminary to blowing.
- noun One of the median, permanent incisors of a horse used to gather or nip off grass in feeding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gathers or collects.
- noun (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
gathers things. - noun A person who
collects rent ortaxes . - noun textiles An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- noun a person who gathers
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a signature gatherer is posted outside my local grocery store, my signature could be revealed to my neighbors.
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In prehistoric times there were no taxcollectors, so perhaps the hunter-gatherer is a nice reference point.
European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Actually, Pinker thinks that what makes market pricing post-hunter-gatherer is that it requires mathematical reasoning.
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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I've partly developed a partial theory that in our new flat, connected, wired/wireless, info-rich, mobile, fast-change world, we're moving from "gatherer" modes to "hunter" modes.
On Expertise 2008
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I am more of a "gatherer" of info, not a "giver" ... but as I acquire more knowledge, and experience, maybe I'll become less of a "newbie" and more of a contributer.
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The signatures are piled up in order, and a "gatherer" collects one from each pile for every book.
Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892
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