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on-going

on-going is the alternative form of ongoing.

Meaning of ongoing

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

  1. Something that is going on; a happening.
    • We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

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Forms of on-going

Noun
pluralon-goings
Adjective
comparativemore on-going
superlativemost on-going

Questions about on-going

What is on-going the alternative form of?
On-going is the alternative form of ongoing.

Words near on-going in the dictionary

  1. on-die
  2. on-duty
  3. on-field
  4. on-glide
  5. on-glides
  6. on-going
  7. on-guard
  8. on-hand
  9. on-hanger
  10. on-hangers
  11. on-hold

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on-going (page history and authors); ongoing (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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