stamp collecting

British  

noun

1. another name for philately

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Other Word Forms

• stamp collector noun

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times

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

From Salon

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

“From the outside looking in, stamp collecting makes no sense,” says 34-year-old collector James Leigh, who also works at stamp dealer John Curtin Ltd.

From The Guardian

According to one history of the project, “It was considered to be weak science, akin to stamp collecting.”

From The Guardian