Definitions for getting
get·ting

Princeton's WordNet(2.60 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. acquiring, gettingnoun

   the act of acquiring something

   "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gettingnoun

   act of obtaining

Webster Dictionary(2.50 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Getting

   of Get

2. Gettingnoun

   the act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition

3. Gettingnoun

   that which is got or obtained; gain; profit

Matched Categories

1. • Act

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'getting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #609

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'getting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #213

How to pronounce getting?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of getting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of getting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of getting in a Sentence

1. Leslie Vinjamuri:

   What Joe Biden should do is work with European allies to have an aligned strategy towards China, but in order to do that you need some time to build that, you don't need more immediate issues getting in the way.

2. Professor Wass:

   We had the concept early on but the devil is in the detail in getting it to work, for aerospace applications where safety is absolutely critical we're probably a long way off.

3. Kathy McWhorter:

   Being on school boards, getting into elected offices so that you know what the curriculum is that is being taught and you can take a stand and see if you can change that curriculum and get critical race theory out of our schools.

4. Sally Ride, President, Space.com:

   I wasn't really scared. I was very excited, and I was very anxious. When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

5. Ron Klain:

   We’ve seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed, but only about half have been given out, so the process of getting that vaccine into arms - that’s the hard process. That’s where we’re behind as a country. That’s where we’re focused in the Biden administration - on getting that ramped up.

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