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giving
noun
1 giving
The act of giving.
synonym: gift.
Roget 784:
giving
etc.
v.;
bestowal,
bestowment†,
donation;
presentation,
presentment;
accordance;
concession;
delivery,
consignment,
dispensation,
communication,
endowment;
investment,
investiture;
award.
almsgiving†,
charity,
liberality,
generosity.
[Thing given]
gift,
donation,
present,
cadeau†;
fairing;
free gift,
boon,
favor,
benefaction,
grant,
offering,
oblation,
sacrifice,
immolation;
lagniappe [U.S.],
pilon [U.S.].
grace,
act of grace,
bonus.
allowance,
contribution,
subscription,
subsidy,
tribute,
subvention.
bequest,
legacy,
devise,
will,
dotation†,
dot,
appanage;
voluntary settlement,
voluntary conveyance
etc.
783;
amortization.
alms,
largess,
bounty,
dole,
sportule†,
donative†,
help,
oblation,
offertory,
honorarium,
gratuity,
Peter pence,
sportula†,
Christmas box,
Easter offering,
vail†,
douceur [Fr.],
drink money,
pourboire,
trinkgeld [G.],
bakshish†;
fee
etc.
(recompense)
973;
consideration.
bribe,
bait,
ground bait;
peace offering,
handsel;
boodle [Slang],
graft,
grease [Slang];
blat [Rus.].
giver,
grantor
etc.
v.;
donor,
feoffer†,
settlor.
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Dutch: cadeau, geschenk, donatie, dotatie, gave, gift, schenking
Polish: danie
2 giving
The imparting of news or promises etc..
3 giving
Disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return.
adjective
1 giving
Given or giving freely:
— Saturday's child is loving and giving.
synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded.
Roget 784:
giving
etc.
v.;
given
etc.
v.;
allowed,
allowable;
concessional†;
communicable;
charitable,
eleemosynary,
sportulary†,
tributary;
gratis
etc.
815;
donative†.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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