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gazetting

gazetting is the present participle and gerund of gazette.

Meaning of gazette

Verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

  1. (transitive) To publish (something) in a gazette.
  2. (UK, transitive) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
    • Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    gazetteer

See all 5 meanings of gazette

Noun

gazetting (plural gazettings)

  1. Publication in a gazette.
    • They were kept at fever heat by the rumors and the gazettings which told of the alternations of the conflict on this side of the water, and by the successive measures of a blundering and discomfited ministry.1886, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 58, page 563

Forms of gazetting

pluralgazettings

Questions about gazetting

What does gazetting mean?
Gazetting means publication in a gazette.
What is gazetting the present participle and gerund of?
Gazetting is the present participle and gerund of gazette.
What part of speech is gazetting?
Gazetting is a noun.
What is the plural of gazetting?
The plural of gazetting is gazettings.

Words near gazetting in the dictionary

  1. gazetteers
  2. gazetteership
  3. gazettement
  4. gazettements
  5. gazettes
  6. gazetting
  7. gazettings
  8. gazettist
  9. gazettists
  10. gazettment
  11. gazi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gazetting (page history and authors); gazette (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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