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UK
/ɡˈɛtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɛtɪŋ, ˈɡɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɛtɪŋ, ˈɡɪtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of acquiring something
he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving
I envied his talent for acquiring
How To Use getting In A Sentence
- For the owners of the Ivy to worry about people thinking they are just for VIPs is a little like a lion getting upset for being called a carnivore. Restaurant review: 34
- There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
- If they come in close and start getting a bit tasty, then they find I can hand it out too.
- When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green
- She's getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.
- HIV-positive Pedro Zamora from the San Francisco season, for example, put a face to the stigmatized disease of AIDS and did a world of good with his exposure -- even getting the recognition of then-president Bill Clinton. Ryan O'Connell: Auditioning for the Real World Is Too Real
- Getting deeper into the study of morality showed me that human nature is very much two-sided; for every bad side to our nature, there's a good one.
- There were bestiaries in the Library, she knew, but finding and getting access to them could be a problem. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
- Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.