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Harvest (agriculture)

The seasonal reaping, cutting, and gathering of mature agricultural crops from farm fields.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
Duplicate · right

Email harvesting

The programmatic bulk extraction of email addresses, credentials, or personal metadata across websites.

First in use: the 1990s

Harvest / Harvest (agriculture) / Email harvesting

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Reaping crops vs. scraping emails.

Which meaning of Harvest is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Harvest (agriculture) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Email harvesting arrived in the 1990s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Harvest (agriculture)

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