existing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪŋ

Verb

existing

1. present participle and gerund of exist

Adjective

existing (not comparable)

1. That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:

     In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.

Synonyms

• existent; See also Thesaurus:existent

Derived terms

• pre-existing

Translations

that exists

• Arabic: مَوْجُود (ar) (mawjūd)
• Azerbaijani: mövcud (az), var olan
• Catalan: existent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現有／现有 (zh) (xiànyǒu), 現存／现存 (zh) (xiàncún)

• Czech: existující (cs)
• Danish: eksisterende
• Dutch: bestaande (nl)
• Finnish: olemassa oleva (fi)
• French: existant (fr)
• German: bestehend (de), existierend (de)
• Italian: esistente (it)
• Japanese: 現在の (ja) (げんざいの, genzai no)
• Maori: tīariari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksisterende

• Polish: istniejący
• Portuguese: existente (pt)
• Romanian: existent (ro) m
• Russian: существу́ющий (ru) (suščestvújuščij)
• Slovak: existujúci
• Spanish: existente (es)
• Turkish: mevcut (tr), varolan

Anagrams

• exitings