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going
[ goh-ing ]
noun
- the act of leaving or departing; departure:
a safe going and quick return.
- the condition of surfaces, as those of roads, for walking or driving:
After the heavy rain, the going was bad.
- progress; advancement:
With such slow going, the work is behind schedule.
- Usually goings. behavior; conduct; deportment.
adjective
- moving or working, as machinery.
- active, alive, or existing.
- continuing to operate or do business, especially in a successful manner:
a going company.
- current; prevalent; usual:
What is the going price of good farmland in this area?
- leaving; departing.
going
/ ˈɡəʊɪŋ /
noun
- a departure or farewell
- the condition of a surface such as a road or field with regard to walking, riding, etc
muddy going
- informal.speed, progress, etc
we made good going on the trip
adjective
- thriving (esp in the phrase a going concern )
- current or accepted, as from past negotiations or commercial operation
the going rate for electricians
the going value of the firm
- postpositive available
the best going
- going, going, gone!a statement by an auctioneer that the bidding has finished
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Idioms and Phrases
- get going, to begin; get started.
- going away, Sports. by a wide margin, especially as established in the late stages of a contest:
The champion won the bout going away.
- going on,
- nearly; almost:
It's going on four o'clock.
- happening:
What's going on here?
- continuing; lasting:
That party has been going on all night.
Example Sentences
The whole family is going to stay in Thailand in a fog for the rest of their lives while they do good things for other people.
“You have deputies out there worried they’re going to get fired for putting handcuffs a little too tight on a suspect.”
"The outlook for him was really, really tough. If you're a betting person, you'd have just said, 'well he's going to end up down the mines or at the steelworks'," he said.
"Criminality is around these guys," he says, explaining that they get picked up off the street and promised they're going to be looked after.
"It has been extremely stressful and frustrating; I constantly worried what letters I was receiving or who was going to knock at the door after the threats."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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