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Giving

Giving Meaning & Definition
Giving Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Giving?

[n] disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
[n] the act of giving
[n] the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"
[adj] given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Giving: big | bighearted | bounteous | bountiful | freehanded | generous | gift | handsome | liberal | openhanded

Related Terms | Find terms related to Giving: abalienation | adaptable | administration | agape | alienation | altruism | amortization | amortizement | announcement | application | applying | assignation | assignment | bargain and sale | barter | bendable | bending | beneficence | benevolence | benevolent disposition | benevolentness | Benthamism | bequeathal | bestowal | bighearted | bigheartedness | BOMFOG | bounteous | bountiful | brotherly love | caritas | cession | charitableness | charity | Christian charity | Christian love | compliant | conferment | conferral | consignation | consignment | conveyance | conveyancing | deeding | deliverance | delivery | demise | disclosure | disposal | disposition | do-goodism | dosage | dosing | ductile | elastic | enfeoffment | enforcing | exchange | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | flower power | forcing | forcing on | formable | formative | free | freehanded | freehearted | generosity | generous | goodwill | grace | gracious | greathearted | greatheartedness | handsome | hospitable | humanitarianism | impartation | imparting | impartment | impressible | impressionable | large | largehearted | largeheartedness | lavish | lease and release | liberal | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | love | love of mankind | magnanimous | malleable | meting out | moldable | munificent | notification | open | openhanded | openhearted | philanthropism | philanthropy | plastic | pliable | pliant | prescribing | princely | profuse | publication | receptive | responsive | sale | sensitive | sequacious | settlement | settling | shapable | sharing | springy | stintless | submissive | supple | surrender | susceptible | telling | tractable | tractile | trading | transfer | transference | transmission | transmittal | ungrudging | unselfish | unsparing | unstinted | unstinting | utilitarianism | vesting | welfarism | well-disposedness | whippy | willowy | yielding

See Also | accordance | accordance of rights | bestowal | bestowment | charity | conferment | conferral | contribution | conveyance | disposal | disposition | donation | endowment | impartation | imparting | oblation | offering | share-out | sharing

Giving In Webster's Dictionary

\Giv"ing\, n. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. ``Upon the first giving of the weather.'' --Addison. {Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse. {Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. --Shak.

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