furthering

furthering is the present participle and gerund of further.

Meaning of further

further (third-person singular simple present furthers, present participle furthering, simple past and past participle furthered)

(transitive) To help forward; to assist.
- In happie houre we haue ſet the Crowne
  Upon your Kingly head, that ſeeks our honor,
  In ioyning with the man, ordain’d by heauen
  To further euerie action to the beſt.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
Antonyms:

hinder
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
- Further the economy.

furthering (plural furtherings)

The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
- […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 266

plural	furtherings

What does furthering mean?: Furthering means the act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
What is furthering the present participle and gerund of?: Furthering is the present participle and gerund of further.
What part of speech is furthering?: Furthering is a noun.
What is the plural of furthering?: The plural of furthering is furtherings.

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