What does continuing mean?

Definitions for continuing
con·tin·u·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. continuingadjective

    remaining in force or being carried on without letup

    "the act provided a continuing annual appropriation"; "the continuing struggle to put food on the table"

  2. chronic, continuingadjective

    of long duration

    "chronic money problems"

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  1. continuing

    Continuing refers to the act or process of persevering, maintaining, prolonging, or carrying on with a certain activity, task, or situation. It pertains to a state or condition of ongoing activity, existence, or progress, often despite challenges or difficulties. It can also refer to resuming or picking up where something left off.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Continuing

    of Continue

Editors Contribution

  1. continuingverb

    Verb form of the word continue.

    The continuing professional development of all employees is important to ensure they achieve their goals.


    Submitted by MaryC on August 3, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'continuing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2963

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'continuing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4767

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'continuing' in Adjectives Frequency: #403

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of continuing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of continuing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of continuing in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Pelosi:

    I'm looking forward to us continuing our work.

  2. Vivek Murthy:

    What we've learned over the last several months is that you need to take a multi-pronged approach, taken together, I do believe the variety of incentives we have, the variety of access initiatives that we have taken and the community based grassroots education campaign that we've embarked on, that these will be effective in continuing to move forward with our vaccination campaign.

  3. State John Kerry:

    We have a lot to do over the next two years ... whether it is continuing the Iran nuclear talks, defining ?the path forward with India, our upcoming strategic dialogue with China (and) our efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.

  4. Tara Sinclair:

    Because we see that demand continuing to grow, we expect wages to increase as well.

  5. Bob Merrit:

    We are going to try to figure out why it worked in some places and why not in others, the way we look at it is: We are really continuing the tests in place with where it works.

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Translations for continuing

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  • continuoSpanish
  • อย่างต่อเนื่องThai

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