What does getting mean?
Definitions for getting
get·ting
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word getting.
Princeton's WordNet
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
gettingnoun
act of obtaining
Webster Dictionary
Getting
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Gettingnoun
the act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition
Gettingnoun
that which is got or obtained; gain; profit
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Rank popularity for the word 'getting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #609
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'getting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #213
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of getting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of getting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of getting in a Sentence
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe:
Innocent citizens, including babies and children, fell victim in Syria, as the security situation is getting increasingly severe around our country, we should strengthen the deterrence of the Japan-US alliance based on an appropriate division of roles between Japan and the United States, and continue to study what we must do in order to protect the lives and the assets of the Japanese people.
That means getting more officers in because we lost about 400 to 500 officers over the past three years. So I'm trying to get those 400 officers back, but training them in conflict resolution and skills on how to de-escalate issues so that they can be better community-based cops.
I think Americans are slowly getting the message that ... breads and grains are fine as long as they are whole grains so we get fiber and nutrients.
We should have been getting into planting for next season, but now all of our equipment is flooded and it's going to take at least three to four weeks to bring back that equipment into shape.
So in that sense, it's a win, because we're getting somebody who's listening to the facts and applying the law appropriately.
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