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vetting

vetting is the present participle and gerund of vet.

Meaning of vet

Verb

vet (third-person singular simple present vets, present participle vetting, simple past and past participle vetted)

  1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
    • The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
    Synonyms:
    evaluate

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Noun

vetting (plural vettings)

  1. A checking or investigation.
    • The Military Intelligence Service in 1997 carried out nearly 18,000 security vettings, which resulted in 43 applicants being turned down because of a criminal record.2003, Jean-Paul Brodeur, Peter Gill, Dennis Töllborg, Democracy, Law, and Security

Forms of vetting

pluralvettings

Words formed from vetting

Questions about vetting

What does vetting mean?
Vetting means a checking or investigation.
What is vetting the present participle and gerund of?
Vetting is the present participle and gerund of vet.
What part of speech is vetting?
Vetting is a noun.
What is the plural of vetting?
The plural of vetting is vettings.

Words near vetting in the dictionary

  1. vetter
  2. vetters
  3. Vettes
  4. Vettese
  5. Vetteses
  6. vetting
  7. vettings
  8. Vettones
  9. vettura
  10. vetturas
  11. vetture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vetting (page history and authors); vet (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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