Usually means: Reading quickly to grasp essentials.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word skimming:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. skimming: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skimming: Merriam-Webster
  3. skimming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skimming: The Word Spy
  5. skimming: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skimming: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skimming, skimming: Wordnik
  8. skimming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skimming: Wiktionary
  10. skimming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skimming: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skimming: Dictionary.com
  13. skimming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Skimming (casinos), Skimming (credit card fraud), Skimming (fraud), Skimming (reading), Skimming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Skimming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. skimming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. skimming: Rhymezone
  18. Skimming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. skimming: FreeDictionary.org
  20. skimming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Skimming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skimming: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Skimming: Investopedia
  3. skimming: Legal dictionary
  4. Skimming: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skimming: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skimming: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skimming: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Skimming: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Skimming: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See skim as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something skimmed from a surface etc.
noun:  A motion or action that skims.
noun:  (uncountable) The sport of skimboarding.
noun:  (crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
noun:  (uncountable, finance) Short for price skimming. [(business) A price-setting strategy in which a new product or service is offered at the highest practical price (to capture consumer surplus or exploit a monopolistic position), and that price is then lowered over time.]
noun:  (uncountable, economics) Short for cream skimming. [(economics, derogatory) The business practice of providing a product or service only to high-value or low-cost customers, while disregarding clients that are less profitable for the company.]

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