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bundling

bundling is the present participle and gerund of bundle.

Noun

bundling (countable and uncountable, plural bundlings)

  1. Arrangement in a bundle or collection.
    • It is not just the sets and sources of rights that are being modified by these intersections of globalisation and governance, but also the very arrangements or bundlings of different sources of power, authority and legitimacy.2014, John Clarke, Kathleen Coll, Evelina Dagnino, Disputing Citizenship
  2. (historical, uncountable) An old custom in Wales, New England, and elsewhere for sweethearts to sleep on the same bed without undressing.

Meaning of bundle

Verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

  1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
  2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
  3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
  4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
  5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
  6. To sell hardware and software as a single product.

See all 20 meanings of bundle

Forms of bundling

pluralbundlings

Words formed from bundling

Phrases with bundling

Questions about bundling

What does bundling mean?
Bundling means arrangement in a bundle or collection.
What is bundling the present participle and gerund of?
Bundling is the present participle and gerund of bundle.
What part of speech is bundling?
Bundling is a noun.
What is the plural of bundling?
The plural of bundling is bundlings.

Words near bundling in the dictionary

  1. bundles up
  2. bundlesome
  3. bundlet
  4. bundlets
  5. bundleware
  6. bundling
  7. bundling off
  8. bundling together
  9. bundling up
  10. bundlings
  11. Bundo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bundling (page history and authors); bundle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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