going
going - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/, /ˈɡɔɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: go‧ing
Verb
going
- present participle of go
- (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
- theatre-going, church-going, movie-going
Translations
Noun
going (countable and uncountable, plural goings)
- A departure.
- The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
- The going was very difficult over the ice.
- Progress.
- We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
- (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
- Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
- (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
- I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
- The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
- Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
Derived terms
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Adjective
going (not comparable)
- Likely to continue; viable.
- He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
- Current, prevailing.
- The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
- (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
- He has the easiest job going.