granting

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æntɪŋ

Verb

granting

1. present participle and gerund of grant

Noun

granting (plural grantings)

1. The act by which something is granted.
   • 1854, Henry Manship (the Younger), The History of Great Yarmouth (page 138)

     […] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]

   • 1947, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Hearings Before Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, 1947 (Eightieth Congress, First Session, volume 2, issues 101–150, page 1858)

     We want to make it clear that […] the Department of Agriculture has no responsibility and takes no position with regard to the grantings of individual export licenses or to whom such licenses are granted.