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flagpoling

flagpoling is the present participle and gerund of flagpole.

Meaning of flagpole

Verb

flagpole (third-person singular simple present flagpoles, present participle flagpoling, simple past and past participle flagpoled)

  1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
    • I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I...2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

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Questions about flagpoling

What is flagpoling the present participle and gerund of?
Flagpoling is the present participle and gerund of flagpole.

Words near flagpoling in the dictionary

  1. flagperson
  2. flagpersons
  3. flagpole
  4. flagpoled
  5. flagpoles
  6. flagpoling
  7. flagpost
  8. flagposts
  9. flagrance
  10. flagrancies
  11. flagrancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flagpoling (page history and authors); flagpole (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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