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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

Rae’s love of stamp collecting was instilled in her as a child, thanks to her grandparents.

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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