founding
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[edit]Verb
[edit]founding
- present participle and gerund of found
- 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
- So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
Noun
[edit]founding (plural foundings)
- The establishment of something.
- the founding of the republic
- 2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism:
- Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?
Translations
[edit]establishment of something
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Adjective
[edit]founding (not comparable)
- Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.
- The founding fathers of our country.
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[edit]who or that founds or founded
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