broadcasting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔdkæstɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑdkæstɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (cot–caught merger):

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Adjective

broadcasting (not comparable)

1. Sending in all directions.

Noun

broadcasting (countable and uncountable, plural broadcastings)

1. (business) The business or profession of radio and television.

   Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air.

2. The act by which something is broadcast.

   frequent broadcastings of the same old material

Derived terms

• brandcasting
• lifecasting
• microbroadcasting
• mobilecasting
• multicasting
• nonbroadcasting
• prebroadcasting
• pubcasting
• slivercasting
• sportscasting
• thought broadcasting

Translations

business or profession of radio and television

• Afrikaans: uitsaai
• Arabic: إِذَاعَة f (ʔiḏāʕa)
• Azerbaijani: veriliş (az), ötürmə
• Belarusian: вяшча́нне n (vjaščánnje)
• Bengali: সম্প্রচার (bn) (śomprocar)
• Bulgarian: преда́ване (bg) n (predávane)
• Catalan: radiodifusió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣播 / 广播 (zh) (guǎngbò)

• Czech: vysílání (cs) n
• Danish: udsendelse c, sending c
• Estonian: ülekanne, ringhääling
• French: radiodiffusion (fr) f, émission (fr) f, diffusion (fr) f
• German: Rundfunk (de) m, Sendung (de) f, Übertragung (de) f
• Hindi: प्रसारण (hi) m (prasāraṇ)
• Italian: trasmissione (it) f, radiodiffusione (it) f
• Japanese: 放送 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō)
• Korean: 방송(放送) (ko) (bangsong)
• Latvian: pārraide f
• Lithuanian: transliavimas m
• Macedonian: емитување n (emituvanje), радиодифузија f (radiodifuzija)
• Malay: penyiaran (ms)
• Norwegian: kringkasting m, rikskringkasting m
• Polish: nadawanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f
• Romanian: difuzare (ro) f
• Russian: веща́ние (ru) n (veščánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: емитовање n, емѝсија f, дѝфӯзија f

  Roman: emitovanje n, emìsija (sh) f, dìfūzija (sh) f

• Slovak: vysielanie n
• Slovene: oddajanje n
• Spanish: retransmisión f, emisión (es) f, radiodifusión
• Swedish: sändning (sv) c
• Turkish: yayım (tr), yayın (tr)
• Ukrainian: мо́влення n (móvlennja), віща́ння n (viščánnja)
• Urdu: نَشْرِیّات f (naśriyyāt)
• Uzbek: eshittirish (uz)

Verb

broadcasting

1. present participle and gerund of broadcast

   This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104 MHz.

   We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.