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Going

Going Meaning & Definition
Going Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Going?

[n] advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding"
[n] act of departing
[n] euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Going: departure | departure | exit | expiration | going away | leaving | loss | passing | release | sledding

Related Terms | Find terms related to Going: abandonment | accepted | acting | active | activity | actuation | affluent | ambulant | ambulative | ambulatory | annihilation | ascending | at work | axial | back | back-flowing | backward | bad | bane | biological death | blackout | blocking | booming | cessation of life | circuit-riding | clinical death | common | commutation | contemporary | course | crossing | crossing the bar | current | curtains | customary | death | death knell | debt of nature | decampment | decease | dematerialization | demise | departure | descending | despaired of | disappearance | disappearing | dispersion | dissipation | dissolution | dissolving | done for | doom | down-trending | downward | drifting | dying | dynamics | ebb of life | eclipse | effective | egress | elimination | end | end of life | ending | erasure | escape | eternal rest | evacuation | evanescence | evaporation | exit | exodus | expeditionary | expiration | expiring | extinction | extinguishment | facing death | fadeaway | fadeout | fading | final summons | finger of death | flight | flourishing | flowing | fluent | flying | functional | functioning | getaway | given up | globe-girdling | globe-trotting | going off | going on | grave | growing | gyrational | gyratory | hand of death | hegira | hopeless | in articulo mortis | in exercise | in extremis | in force | in hand | in operation | in play | in practice | in process | in the works | inaction | incapable of life | itinerant | itinerary | jaws of death | journeying | kinematics | kinesipathy | kinesis | kinesitherapy | kinetics | knell | last debt | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | leaving | leaving life | locomotion | locomotive | loss of life | low | making an end | melting | mobilization | moribund | motion | motivation | mounting | move | movement | moving | mundivagant | near death | nonviable | occultation | on foot | on the fire | on tour | ongoing | operating | operational | parting | passage | passing | passing away | passing over | pedestrian | perambulating | perambulatory | peregrinative | peregrine | peripatetic | perishing | pilgrimlike | plunging | present | prevailing | prevalent | progress | progressing | progressive | prospering | prosperous | quietus | reflowing | refluent | regressive | release | removal | rest | restlessness | retirement | retreat | retrogressive | reward | rising | rotary | rotational | rotatory | running | rushing | sentence of death | shades of death | shadow of death | sideward | sinking | sleep | slipping | slipping away | soaring | somatic death | stir | stirring | streaming | strolling | succeeding | successful | summons of death | terminal | thriving | touring | tourism | touristic | touristry | touristy | traject | trajet | transit | travel | traveling | trekking | universal | unrest | up-trending | upward | usual | vanishing | vanishing point | velocity | walking | walkout | wayfaring | wealthy | wipe | withdrawal | working

See Also | accomplishment | achievement | boarding | breaking away | death | decease | deed | despatch | disappearance | disappearing | dispatch | effort | embarkation | embarkment | exit | exploit | farewell | feat | French leave | leave | leave-taking | parting | sailing | shipment | takeoff | withdrawal

Going In Webster's Dictionary

\Go"ing\, n. 1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad. 2. Departure. --Milton. 3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew. 4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. --Job xxxiv. 21. {Going barrel}. (Horology) (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. {Going forth}. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. ``Every going forth of the sanctuary.'' --Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 4. {Going out}, or {Goings out}. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys.'' --Num. xxxiii. 2. {Goings on}, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.
\Go"ing\, p. pr. of {Go}. Specif.: (a) That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. (b) Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases {a going business}, {concern}, etc. (c) Of or pert. to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.

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