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GATHERER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

Synonyms:

accumulator; collector; gatherer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gatherer" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Domain category:

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gatherer"):

conductor (the person who collects fares on a public conveyance)

gleaner (someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully)

rent collector (a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner)

Instance hyponyms:

Gardner; Isabella Stewart Gardner (United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who gathers

Example:

they were a society of hunters and gatherers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gatherer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

gather (look for (food) in nature)

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