GOING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of going in English goingnoun uk /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/

going noun (SPEED)

Add to word list Add to word list [ U ] how quickly you do something: slow going The traffic was terrible, so it was slow going. Speed of motion

• at full/half throttle idiom
• briskness
• burst of speed
• celerity
• clip
• clock
• ground speed
• hypersonic
• hypervelocity
• indecent haste
• instantaneous velocity
• light speed
• momentum
• pace
• speed of sound
• speediness
• supersonically
• swiftness
• velocity
• zip

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going noun (DIFFICULTY)

[ U ] how easy or difficult something is: heavy going She's obviously very intelligent, but her lectures are heavy going (= they are difficult to understand).hard going At first the job was hard going (= difficult), but it's got easier with time. Situations and circumstances

• background
• busyness
• circumstance
• circumstances beyond someone's control
• comedy of errors
• condition
• farce
• financial affairs
• footing
• landscape
• matrix
• picture
• position
• practicality
• scheme
• situation
• the scheme of things idiom
• under any circumstances
• under no circumstances
• under the circumstances

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going noun (GROUND)

[ U ] the condition of the ground for walking or riding, etc.: After an inch of rain at the racecourse overnight, the going is described as good to soft. Wet weather & wetness

• clammily
• clamminess
• clammy
• damp
• damply
• dampness
• dankly
• douse
• flooded
• moisten
• monsoon
• rehydration
• remoisten
• rewet
• saturation
• semi-dry
• sleety
• soak
• soaked
• sodden

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going noun (LEAVING)

[ S ] an occasion when someone leaves somewhere: His going came as a shock. Arrivals and departures

• admittance
• advent
• approach
• arr.
• arrival
• bourne
• check
• connection
• departure for somewhere
• descent
• destination
• entry
• eta
• gain admittance
• gold rush
• misconnect
• misconnection
• new arrival
• on arrival
• outflow

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Idioms

when the going gets rough/tough when the going gets tough, the tough get going while the going is good goingadjective [ after noun ] uk /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/ UK available or existing: I wouldn't trust him if I were you - he's the biggest crook going (= he's the most dishonest person that exists). I don't suppose there's any left-over pie going, is there? Available and accessible

• accessibility
• accessible
• accessibly
• all day
• appear
• at your command idiom
• drop
• have something to play with idiom
• here
• in the public domain
• non-restricted
• nothing
• obtainable
• season
• stream
• unearmarked
• unfilled
• unfreeze
• unfrozen
• unlock

See more results »  the going rate/price/salary etc. the usual rate, price, etc. at a particular time: The going rate for a piano teacher is £30 an hour. See more -goingsuffix uk / -ɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ us / -ɡoʊ-/ used to refer to the activity of going to the stated place: He grew up in a strict church-going family. General words for movement

• betake
• body English
• budge
• budge up phrasal verb
• carry
• circulate
• gone
• inertly
• keepy-uppy
• kinetic
• kinetic energy
• kinetically
• motion
• pass
• repair
• repair to somewhere phrasal verb
• round
• scoot
• seethe
• shove

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going | American Dictionary

goingadjective [ not gradable ] us /ˈɡoʊ·ɪŋ/

going adjective [not gradable] (BE SUITABLE)

Add to word list Add to word list (of a price or a charge) usual or suitable at the present time: What’s the going rate for this kind of work?

going adjective [not gradable] (OPERATE)

operating successfully or without difficulty: The advertising agency was a going concern when she headed it. (Definition of going from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of going, -going?

Translations of going

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More meanings of going

• going noun, at go
• go
• going on
• going to
• hard going
• easy-going
• easygoing

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• go about something phrasal verb
• go against something/someone phrasal verb
• go ahead phrasal verb
• go along phrasal verb
• go around phrasal verb
• go at someone/something phrasal verb
• go back on something phrasal verb

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• get going/moving phrase
• go on! phrase
• going away idiom
• keep going phrase
• keep someone going phrase
• as you go along phrase
• (still) going strong idiom

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  • Noun 
    • going (SPEED)
    • going (DIFFICULTY)
    • going (GROUND)
    • going (LEAVING)
  • Adjective 
    • going
    • the going rate/price/salary etc.
  Suffix
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • going (BE SUITABLE)
    • going (OPERATE)

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