crossposting
crossposting is the present participle and gerund of crosspost.
Meaning of crosspost
Verb
crosspost (third-person singular simple present crossposts, present participle crossposting, simple past and past participle crossposted)
- To post (a message) to multiple newsgroups or forums simultaneously.
- but it sounds like a rationalization to me. I'm cross-posting this to net.women to see how women feel about it.1983 December 20, George Sicherman, “Relationships and Later Lovers”, in net.singles (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jan 2026
- To post an entry (in a book index or other index) such that no matter which word a user looks under, they will find the relevant entry (see examples).
Questions about crossposting
- What is crossposting the present participle and gerund of?
- Crossposting is the present participle and gerund of crosspost.
Words near crossposting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crossposting (page history and authors); crosspost (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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