n. The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of gathering or collecting together; specifically, the gathering in or storing of a harvest.
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n. request for a sum of money
Word Usage
"This must have sounded like blasphemy to Weizmann, who like most mainstream Zionists believed that the Jewish mission was a long-term ingathering of all Jews everywhere back to the Promised Land."