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stamp collecting

British  

noun

  1. another name for philately

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball cards.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2023

But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 2023

It was once a byword for boring, but it seems stamp collecting is finding a new – young – audience, despite the fact that some hobbyists have never actually posted a letter.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020

With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

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