Usually means: Requesting information or action verbally.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word asking:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. asking: Merriam-Webster
  2. asking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. asking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Asking, asking: Wordnik
  5. asking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. asking: Wiktionary
  7. Asking, asking: Dictionary.com
  8. asking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Asking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. asking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. asking: Rhymezone
  12. Asking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. asking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. asking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. asking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. asking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Asking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. asking: Legal dictionary
  2. asking: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asking: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (asking)

▸ adjective:  That asks; that expresses a question or request.
▸ noun:  The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
▸ noun:  (rare in the singular) A request, or petition.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) The marriage banns.

Similar:
interrogative, interrogatory, request, telling, answering, inquiring, begging, saying, questioning, talking, more...

Opposite:
telling, stating, declaring, informing, answering

Types:
rhetorical, open-ended, closed-ended, leading, loaded, double-barreled, yes-no, more...

Phrases:
asking for, asking price, asking prices, for the asking, asking for trouble, more...

Adjectives:
mere, question, first, worth, own, more, comfortable, simple, constant, continual, fundamental



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Similar:
interrogative, interrogatory, request, telling, answering, inquiring, begging, saying, questioning, talking, more...

Opposite:
telling, stating, declaring, informing, answering

Types:
rhetorical, open-ended, closed-ended, leading, loaded, double-barreled, yes-no, more...

Phrases:
asking for, asking price, asking prices, for the asking, asking for trouble, asking after, asking around, asking out, be asking for it, be asking for trouble, asking along, been asking for it, more...

Adjectives:
mere, question, first, worth, own, more, comfortable, simple, constant, continual, fundamental



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