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banqueteering

banqueteering is the present participle and gerund of banqueteer.

Meaning of banqueteer

Verb

banqueteer (third-person singular simple present banqueteers, present participle banqueteering, simple past and past participle banqueteered)

  1. To attend a banquet or banquets (particularly as a frequent or habitual activity).
    • I had been banqueteering and making speeches two or three times in every week for six months […]1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189

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Noun

banqueteering (uncountable)

  1. The act of participating in banquets, particularly as a frequent activity (also used attributively).
    • […] and so, to make a long story short, such faisting and banqueteering was never seen since or before.1853, William Carleton, “The Three Tasks, or, The Little House Under the Hill”, in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, volume 1, London: Routledge, page 105
    • Three seasons ago I was still keeping up the banqueteering habit—a habit which had its beginning in 1869 or ’70 and had been continued season by season, thereafter, over that long stretch of thirty-five or thirty-six years.1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189

Questions about banqueteering

What does banqueteering mean?
Banqueteering means the act of participating in banquets, particularly as a frequent activity (also used attributively).
What is banqueteering the present participle and gerund of?
Banqueteering is the present participle and gerund of banqueteer.
What part of speech is banqueteering?
Banqueteering is a noun.

Words near banqueteering in the dictionary

  1. banquet trolley
  2. banquet trolleys
  3. banqueted
  4. banqueteer
  5. banqueteered
  6. banqueteering
  7. banqueteers
  8. banqueter
  9. banqueters
  10. banquetgoer
  11. banqueting

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