INGATHERING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Request for a sum of money

Example:

an appeal to raise money for starving children

Synonyms:

appeal; collection; ingathering; solicitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

petition; postulation; request (a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ingathering"):

whip-round ((British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose)

-ing form of the verb ingather