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harvesting

harvesting noun: the gathering of a mature crop; a harvest. Also the present participle and gerund of harvest.

Noun

harvesting (countable and uncountable, plural harvestings)

  1. The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
  2. (broadly) The gathering of any resource.
    • American regulations at the time prohibited organ harvesting from brain-dead patients if their hearts were still beating.2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 187

Also used as

harvesting is also the present participle and gerund of harvest.

harvesting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

harvesting in Hindi

कटाई

harvesting in Tamil

அறுவடை செய்தல்

harvesting in Marathi

कापणी

harvesting in Urdu

کٹائی
More languagesFewer languages
harvesting in Bengali
ফসল কাটা, ফসল কাটার কাজ
harvesting in Telugu
పంటకోత, పంట కోత
harvesting in Malayalam
വിളവെടുപ്പ്, വിളവെടുക്കൽ
harvesting in Nepali
फसल काट्ने, फसल काट्ने कार्य, फसल काट्न

Forms of harvesting

pluralharvestings

Words formed from harvesting

Questions about harvesting

What does harvesting mean?
Harvesting means the gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
What is harvesting in Hindi?
Harvesting in Hindi is कटाई. See Harvesting meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is harvesting?
Harvesting is a noun.
What is the plural of harvesting?
The plural of harvesting is harvestings.

Words near harvesting in the dictionary

  1. harvesters
  2. harvesteth
  3. harvestfish
  4. harvestfishes
  5. harvestible
  6. harvesting
  7. harvestings
  8. harvestless
  9. harvestman
  10. harvestmen
  11. harvestries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harvesting (page history and authors); harvesting (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harvesting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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