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countable and uncountable, plural collectings
A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. quotations examples
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
present participle and gerund of collect examples