ingathering

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the gathering in of a harvest

   Religious festivals followed the ingathering of the crops.

2. 2
   noun

   a bringing together of people, resources, or contributions

   The annual ingathering collected gifts for the relief fund.

From in- + gathering, literally a gathering inward. The agricultural sense of bringing crops in broadened to collections of people, offerings, or resources.

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