information gathering

1. 1.

   the act of collecting information

   Broaderoperation

   Narrowerintelligence

Questions about information gathering

What does information gathering mean?

information gathering means "the act of collecting information".

Is information gathering a common word?

information gathering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.