grandfathering in
grandfathering in is the present participle of grandfather in.
Meaning of grandfather in
Verb
grandfather in (third-person singular simple present grandfathers in, present participle grandfathering in, simple past and past participle grandfathered in)
- Synonym of grandfather.
- In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Guinn v. United States that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. […] The decision had almost no effect, however. The Oklahoma Legislature met in special session to grandfather in the grandfather clause. The new law said those who had been...2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History of the Grandfather Clause”, in NPR, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2019
- Synonyms:
- grandfather
Questions about grandfathering in
- What is grandfathering in the present participle of?
- Grandfathering in is the present participle of grandfather in.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grandfathering in (page history and authors); grandfather in (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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