going

See also: Going and goïng

going - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡəʊɪŋ/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/, /ˈɡɔɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: go‧ing

Verb

going

  1. present participle of go
  2. (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)

  1. A departure.
  2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
    • The going was very difficult over the ice.
  3. Progress.
    • We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
  4. (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
    • Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
  5. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
  6. (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?
  7. 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

Translations

  • Galician: ida f
  • German: Weiterkommen n

Adjective

going (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. Current, prevailing.
    • The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
  3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
    • He has the easiest job going.

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