Usually means: Base or support for stability.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. footing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. footing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. footing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. footing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. footing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Footing, footing: Wordnik
  7. footing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. footing: Wiktionary
  9. footing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. footing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. footing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Footing, footing: Dictionary.com
  13. footing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. footing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Footing (bookkeeping), Footing (sexual act), Footing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Footing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. footing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. footing: Rhymezone
  19. Footing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. footing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Footing: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. footing: Free Dictionary
  23. footing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. footing: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. FOOTING: Accounting Glossary
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. footing: Legal dictionary
  5. footing: Financial dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. footing: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. footing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See foot as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
noun:  A standing; position; established place; foothold.
noun:  A relative condition; state.
noun:  (dated) A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
noun:  (rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
noun:  Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
noun:  The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
noun:  The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
noun:  A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
noun:  The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
noun:  (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
noun:  (accounting) A double-check of the numbers vertically.

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