Usually means: Selecting items from a group.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word picking:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. picking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. picking: Merriam-Webster
  3. picking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. picking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. picking: Vocabulary.com
  6. Picking, picking: Wordnik
  7. picking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. picking: Wiktionary
  9. picking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. picking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. picking: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Picking, picking: Dictionary.com
  13. picking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Picking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Picking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. picking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. picking: Rhymezone
  18. Picking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. picking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. picking: FreeDictionary.org
  21. picking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. picking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. picking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. picking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. picking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. picking: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Picking: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See pick as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (picking)

noun:  A gathering to pick fruit.
noun:  (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
noun:  (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
noun:  Something picked or pulled out.
noun:  The act of making a choice; selection.
noun:  The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
noun:  The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
noun:  Dabbing in stoneworking.

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