harvesting

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Noun

harvesting (countable and uncountable, plural harvestings)

(agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
(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.

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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

present participle and gerund of harvest

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