GATHERER

Pronunciation (US):

• GATHERER (noun)
  The noun GATHERER has 2 senses:

1. a person who gathers
2. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

  Familiarity information: GATHERER used as a noun is rare.

• GATHERER (noun)

Meaning:

A person who gathers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

they were a society of hunters and gatherers

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

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

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

accumulator; collector; gatherer

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

bearer; holder (the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it)

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)

packrat (a collector of miscellaneous useless objects)

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))