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Plural of firing

regular plural

The plural of firing is firings.

Forms of firing

Singularfiring /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/
Pluralfirings
Countablecountable and uncountable

Firings in a sentence

  • May’s hirings and firings.2016 July 19, Matthew d’Ancona, “Theresa May’s Shock Therapy”, in The New York Times
  • He got axed in the last round of firings.From the entry axe
  • The meeting was pervaded with an undercurrent of dread, as the managers tried not to admit that firings were looming.From the entry undercurrent
  • When the ear transduces sound into neural firings, the two physical processes—vibrating air and diffusing ions—could not be more different.2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin…. From the entry transduce
  • In the past few months, we in Upstate N.Y. have been subjected to fire bombings, firings, verbal and physical harassment, etc.1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 5. From the entry sic

Meaning of firing

  1. noun The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
  2. noun The fuel for a fire.
  3. noun The act of adding fuel to a fire.

Full definition of firing

Questions about the plural of firing

What is the plural of firing?
The plural of firing is firings.
Is firing countable?
Firing is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firing (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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