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Definitions: PETITIONING |
PETITIONINGNoun1. The act of presenting apetition; a supplication. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Petition |
Date "PETITIONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: PETITIONINGSynonym: Petitions. (additional references) |
Crosswords: PETITIONING |
| English words defined with "PETITIONING": Petitory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PETITIONING": MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A petitioning, remonstrating, reforming, republican / R.S.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Children | South Africa | In December 1999, a Cape Town High Court heard a case brought by residents of a squatter camp petitioning for government-provided housing. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Armenia | Petitioning organizations must "be free from materialism and of a purely spiritual nature," and must subscribe to a doctrine based on "historically recognized holy scriptures." To qualify a religious organization must have at least 200 members. (references) |
Political Rights | Oman | Citizens have indirect access to senior officials through the traditional practice of petitioning their patrons, usually the local governor, for redress of grievances. (references) |
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| "PETITIONING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.05% of the time. "PETITIONING" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 54.05% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.38% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.86% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PETITIONING": obtain by petitioning. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "PETITIONING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 诉请 (Petitioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schuldeiser die het verzoek tot faillietverklaring gedaan heeft (petitioning creditor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | créancier poursuivant (petitioning creditor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ersuchend (beseeching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | creditore istante (petitioning creditor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 奏請 (petitioning the Emperor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうせい (bearing twins, creation of world, dense growth, discovery, dying young, early death, healthy growth, invention, origination, people, petitioning the Emperor, the masses, twins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각축 (Competing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | plaiyntoil, aghinagh (appealing, client, invoker, petitioner, plaintiff, pleading, protester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etitioningpay ходатайствовать (intercede, move, petition, petitioned, plead, solicit). (various references) dobiti putem peticije (obtain by petitioning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "PETITIONING": counterpetitioning. (additional references) | |
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"PETITIONING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: editioning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PETITIONING" (pronounced puti"shuning) |
| 7 | -t i" sh u n i ng | partitioning. |
| 6 | -i" sh u n i ng | auditioning, commissioning, conditioning, decommissioning, positioning, reconditioning, repositioning. |
| 5 | -sh u n i ng | apportioning, auctioning, captioning, cautioning, cushioning, fashioning, freshening, functioning, malfunctioning, mentioning, motioning, rationing, sanctioning, sectioning, stationing, vacationing. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fastening, fattening, flattening, frightening, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, margining, opening, orphaning, pardoning, poisoning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reexamining, reopening, ripening, ruining, saddening, seasoning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-p-t-t" | |
-2 letters: tiptoeing. | |
-3 letters: ignition, petition, pointing. | |
-4 letters: epigoni, netting, opening, opining, peining, petting, pitting, pontine, potting, tenting, tinting, toiting, tontine. | |
-5 letters: epigon, gittin, gotten, ignite, intent, intine, intone, noting, opting, pieing, pigeon, pining, pinion, pinite, pointe, ponent, potent, tenpin, tieing, tiepin, tining, tiptoe, toeing, toning, toping, toting. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-p-t-t" | |
+3 letters: repartitioning. | |
+5 letters: antiprofiteering, photosensitizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 54 49 54 49 4F 4E 49 4E 47 |
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