gatherer

IPA: gˈæðɝɝ

A person who gathers things.
(business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
(textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
(glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.

Examples of "gatherer" in Sentences

The signatures are piled up in order, and a "gatherer" collects one from each pile for every book.
In prehistoric times there were no taxcollectors, so perhaps the hunter-gatherer is a nice reference point.
If a signature gatherer is posted outside my local grocery store, my signature could be revealed to my neighbors.
Actually, Pinker thinks that what makes market pricing post-hunter-gatherer is that it requires mathematical reasoning.
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I am more of a "gatherer" of info, not a "giver" ... but as I acquire more knowledge, and experience, maybe I'll become less of a "newbie" and more of a contributer.
Until the end of the Mesolithic era, the female may have been best known as a gatherer and forager, a gender which derived immense pleasure from the art of scavenging.
I've partly developed a partial theory that in our new flat, connected, wired/wireless, info-rich, mobile, fast-change world, we're moving from "gatherer" modes to "hunter" modes.