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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun giving has 3 senses

• giving(n = noun.act) gift - the act of giving; Array
has particulars: oblation, offering, bestowal, bestowment, conferment, conferral, accordance, accordance of rights, endowment, charity, contribution, donation, alms-giving, almsgiving
is a kind of share-out, sharing
Derived forms verb give₂₄, verb give₃, verb give₂₅

• giving(n = noun.communication) Array - the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"
is a kind of conveyance, impartation, imparting
Derived forms verb give₃₇, verb give₄, verb give₁₂

• giving(n = noun.act) Array - disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
is a kind of disposal, disposition
Derived forms verb give₃, verb give₈, verb give₂₅

Adjective giving has 1 sense

• giving(s = adj.all) big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded - given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

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THESAURUS

giving

BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, abalienation, adaptable, administration, agape, alienation, altruism, amortization, amortizement, announcement, application, applying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bendable, bending, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bequeathal, bestowal, bighearted, bigheartedness, bounteous, bountiful, brotherly love, caritas, cession, charitableness, charity, compliant, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disclosure, disposal, disposition, do-goodism, dosage, dosing, ductile, elastic, enfeoffment, enforcing, exchange, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flower power, forcing, forcing on, formable, formative, free, freehanded, freehearted, generosity, generous, goodwill, grace, gracious, greathearted, greatheartedness, handsome, hospitable, humanitarianism, impartation, imparting, impartment, impressible, impressionable, large, largehearted, largeheartedness, lavish, lease and release, liberal, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, love, love of mankind, magnanimous, malleable, meting out, moldable, munificent, notification, open, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropism, philanthropy, plastic, pliable, pliant, prescribing, princely, profuse, publication, receptive, responsive, sale, sensitive, sequacious, settlement, settling, shapable, sharing, springy, stintless, submissive, supple, surrender, susceptible, telling, tractable, tractile, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, utilitarianism, vesting, welfarism, well-disposedness, whippy, willowy, yielding

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Giving

N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare, giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.

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