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forwarding

forwarding is the present participle and gerund of forward.

Meaning of forward

Verb

forward (third-person singular simple present forwards, present participle forwarding, simple past and past participle forwarded)

  1. (transitive) To advance, promote.
    • He did all he could to forward the interests of the school.
  2. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
    • I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.
    Synonyms:
    pass on
  3. (transitive) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
  4. (Caribbean, intransitive) To arrive, come.

See all 36 meanings of forward

Noun

forwarding (plural forwardings)

  1. The act by which something is forwarded.
    • A third oil company, Gulf, is soon to join Esso and BP in rail forwardings from this port.1964 November, “News: Upward trend in South Wales”, in Modern Railways, page 349
    • You might think that the GatewayPorts feature discussed in the last section applies equally well to remote port forwardings. This would make sense as a feature, but as it happens, it isn't done.2005, Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes, SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

Forms of forwarding

pluralforwardings

Words formed from forwarding

Phrases with forwarding

Questions about forwarding

What does forwarding mean?
Forwarding means the act by which something is forwarded.
What is forwarding the present participle and gerund of?
Forwarding is the present participle and gerund of forward.
What part of speech is forwarding?
Forwarding is a noun.
What is the plural of forwarding?
The plural of forwarding is forwardings.

Words near forwarding in the dictionary

  1. forwardations
  2. forwarded
  3. forwarder
  4. forwarders
  5. forwardest
  6. forwarding
  7. forwarding address
  8. forwarding addresses
  9. forwarding plane
  10. forwardings
  11. forwardly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forwarding (page history and authors); forward (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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