Usually means: Acquiring or receiving something desired.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. getting: Merriam-Webster
  2. getting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. getting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. getting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Getting, getting, getting: Wordnik
  6. getting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. getting: Wiktionary
  8. Getting, getting: Dictionary.com
  9. getting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Getting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Getting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. getting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. getting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. getting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Getting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. getting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  17. Getting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. getting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. getting: Rhymezone

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. getting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. getting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. getting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. getting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. getting: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -getting: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (getting)

noun:  The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
noun:  That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

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