harvesting

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

harvesting (countable and uncountable, plural harvestings)

1. (agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
2. (by extension) The gathering of any resource.
   • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 187:

     American regulations at the time prohibited organ harvesting from brain-dead patients if their hearts were still beating.

Derived terms

• organ harvesting
• postharvesting
• web harvesting

Translations

the gathering of a mature crop

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܚܨܕܐ m

• Finnish: sadonkorjuu (fi)
• Irish: buainteoireacht f, sábháil f, (archaic) fómhar m
• Italian: raccolta (it) f, mietitura (it) f
• Japanese: 収納 (ja) (shūnō), 収穫 (ja) (shūkaku)
• Portuguese: ceifa (pt) f
• Spanish: recolección (es) f, cosecha (es) f

Verb

harvesting

1. present participle and gerund of harvest