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pacting

pacting is the present participle and gerund of pact.

Meaning of pact

Verb

pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)

  1. (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
    • When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129

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Questions about pacting

What is pacting the present participle and gerund of?
Pacting is the present participle and gerund of pact.

Words near pacting in the dictionary

  1. pacta de non petendo
  2. pacta sunt servanda
  3. pactamycin
  4. pactamycins
  5. pacted
  6. pacting
  7. paction
  8. pactional
  9. pactionally
  10. pactioned
  11. pactioning

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