Usually means: Getting back something previously stored.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrieving: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrieving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retrieving: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retrieving, retrieving: Wordnik
  5. retrieving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retrieving: Wiktionary
  7. Retrieving, retrieving: Dictionary.com
  8. retrieving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Retrieving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Retrieving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. retrieving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. retrieving: FreeDictionary.org
  13. retrieving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieving: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieving: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retrieving: Sports Definitions

(Note: See retrieve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retrieving)

noun:  An act of retrieval.

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