gatherer

American  

[gath-er-er] / ˈgæð ər ər /

noun

1. a person or thing that collects, brings together, or accumulates.

   The artist acts as both gatherer and creator, collecting vintage artifacts and orchestrating them into open-ended narratives.

   The data gatherers are to inquire about product safety, potential drug interactions, cost, and efficacy.

2. a person who comes together with others.

   In Black churches throughout the South, gatherers celebrated “Watch Night” on December 31, 1862, counting down to the moment when the Emancipation Proclamation would take effect.

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Etymology

Origin of gatherer

gather ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Ten years later, the number of people surveyed swelled to about 250 million—with roughly half a million Indian volunteers serving as gatherers of information—making the census a sprawling “exercise of state power.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In Indonesia, the growing exploitation of nickel to meet surging demand for electric vehicle batteries is endangering the nomadic hunter gatherer people of the Hongana Manyawa community, the report said.

From Barron's

Leonard Bernstein, a great gatherer of differences in his music, died Oct.

From Los Angeles Times

Cydney Hargis, a spokesperson for the group, in turn accused the union of unsavory tactics and alleged that signature gatherers have been intimidated by observers.

From Los Angeles Times

Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, called the business group’s proposal “shameful” and promised his union’s members would go “toe to toe out on the streets” with the alliance’s signature gatherers.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• connoisseur
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