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PowerPointing

PowerPointing is the present participle and gerund of PowerPoint.

Meaning of PowerPoint

Verb

PowerPoint (third-person singular simple present PowerPoints, present participle PowerPointing, simple past and past participle PowerPointed)

  1. (intransitive) To communicate using electronic slides.
    • A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). AJR readers may be interested to know that free software packages are available that...2002, Jeff Fessler, “Free "PowerPointing"”, in American Journal of Roentgenology
  2. (transitive) To present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.
    • Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”?2005, John Elliott with T J Elliott, Decision DNA, number 1, page 105
  3. (transitive) To communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.
    • She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives2004, Matthew Symonds with Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, page 247

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Questions about PowerPointing

What is PowerPointing the present participle and gerund of?
PowerPointing is the present participle and gerund of PowerPoint.

Words near PowerPointing in the dictionary

  1. PowerPoint ranger
  2. PowerPoint rangers
  3. PowerPointed
  4. PowerPointer
  5. PowerPointers
  6. PowerPointing
  7. PowerPointlessness
  8. powerpoints
  9. powerpop
  10. powers
  11. powers ahead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PowerPointing (page history and authors); PowerPoint (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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