incoming
/ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
incoming adjective: coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
Adjective
incoming (not comparable)
- Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
- Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.
- Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35
- Succeeding to an office or other position.
- The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
Interjection
Noun
incoming (countable and uncountable, plural incomings)
- The act of coming in; arrival.
- Enemy fire directed at oneself.
- Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.1977, Moyers S. Shore, The Battle for Khe Sanh
- I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.1992, Michael R. Conroy, Don't tell America!, page 120
incoming meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
incoming in Tamil
- அடுத்த, உள்வரும், உள் வருகின்ற, உள்ளே வருகின்ற, புதுவரவு, வரப்பெறும்
incoming in Bengali
- প্রবেশ, আগমন, আয়, আগামী
incoming in Telugu
- ఇన్కమింగ్
incoming in Malayalam
- entering, arriving, approaching
- ആഗമം, വന്നുചേരുന്ന, വരത്ത്, എത്തുന്ന, പ്രവേശിക്കുന്ന, ഇങ്ങോട്ടുവരുന്ന
- new, newly elected, newly appointed
- പുതുതായി തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ട, പുതുതായി നിയമിക്കപ്പെട്ട, ഇപ്പോൾ തെരഞ്ഞെുപ്പിൽ ജയിച്ച, പുതുതായി നിയോഗിക്കപ്പെട്ട, വിനിയുക്ത, പിന്തുടർന്നുവരുന്ന
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- incoming in Kannada
- ಒಳಕ್ಕೆ ಬರುವ, ಆಗಮಿಸುವ, ಆಗಾಮಿ, ತರುವಾಯ ಬರುವ
Examples of incoming in a sentence
- An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.
- The sniper picked off the incoming police one at a time.
- They tried to reduce their turnaround on incoming paperwork.
Antonyms of incoming
Forms of incoming
| plural | incomings |
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Origin of incoming
From in (adverb) + coming (adjective).
From Middle English incomming, in comyng, in-comyng, incomyng, in-comynge, incomynge, inne comyng, yn comyng, equivalent to in (adverb) + coming (noun).
Words formed from incoming
Questions about incoming
- What does incoming mean?
- Incoming means coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
- What is incoming in Tamil?
- Incoming in Tamil is அடுத்த, உள்வரும், உள் வருகின்ற. See Incoming meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is incoming?
- Incoming can be an adjective, an interjection or a noun.
- How do you pronounce incoming?
- Incoming is pronounced /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/.
Words near incoming in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incoming (page history and authors); incoming (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incoming (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incoming (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incoming (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incoming (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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