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HAHV-ist/ˈhɑːvɪst/

A harvest is the gathering of crops, or that season: a poor harvest; harvest time. As a verb, to harvest crops or, in tech, to harvest data (often negative). Crop is the plant; harvest is the collecting. Do not call a weekly shop a harvest. Food-price stories follow the harvest.

Meaning

The time when crops are cut and collected; as a verb, to collect them.

Examples

• “A poor harvest pushed vegetable prices up in the autumn.”
• “The app harvested more data than the privacy notice allowed, which is the tech sense.”

Good to know

a poor / bumper harvest; harvest time. Verb: harvest crops / data. Related: crop. Tech (often critical): harvest data. Not a supermarket shop.

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