Usually means: Continuing activity despite difficulties faced.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word carrying-on:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. carrying-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. carrying-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carrying-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carrying-on, carrying-on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carrying-on: Wordnik
  6. carrying-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. carrying-on: Wiktionary
  8. carrying-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. carrying-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. carrying-on: Dictionary.com
  11. carrying-on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carrying-on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See carryings-on as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carrying-on)

▸ noun:  Improper, immoral behavior
▸ noun:  Irritating or self-indulgent behavior

Similar:
misbehaving, immorality, impropriety, profligacy, malversation, misbehavior, impudence, misgovernment, moral turpitude, vice, more...

Opposite:
cease, stop, end, discontinue, terminate

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Similar:
misbehaving, immorality, impropriety, profligacy, malversation, misbehavior, impudence, misgovernment, moral turpitude, vice, more...

Opposite:
cease, stop, end, discontinue, terminate



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