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frontiering

frontiering is the present participle and gerund of frontier.

Meaning of frontier

Verb

frontier (third-person singular simple present frontiers, present participle frontiering, simple past and past participle frontiered)

  1. (intransitive) To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To place on the frontier.
    • now that it is no more a Border, nor frontiered with Enemies, why should such Privileges be any more continued?1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

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Questions about frontiering

What is frontiering the present participle and gerund of?
Frontiering is the present participle and gerund of frontier.

Words near frontiering in the dictionary

  1. frontier artificial intelligence
  2. Frontier County
  3. frontier orbital
  4. frontier orbitals
  5. frontiered
  6. frontiering
  7. frontierism
  8. frontierist
  9. frontierists
  10. frontierless
  11. frontierlessness

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