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  • verb Present participle of bring.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

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Examples

  • He used the term bringing in sort of a jet hose to clean out these areas of what he called the scum and the violent youth.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2005 2005

  • Q Is that what you call bringing value to expert counsel?

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995

  • "It depends what you call bringing it off," I said.

    Once a Week 1919

  • The two stories offered unlimited opportunity for expansion in the blacksmith's mind, but while he was preparing himself to do what he called bringing the two men down in the sight and hearing of the whole town, a thing happened that upset his plans.

    Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • Ms Muse walked in no less than 42 spring/summer 2012 shows: that's what we call bringing home the trust fund.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Ms Muse walked in no less than 42 spring/summer 2012 shows: that's what we call bringing home the trust fund.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Around 15,000 pro-life campaigners, clearly buoyed by what they see as last month's victory on the foreign-aid front, cheered loudly when numerous speakers talked about the next steps in what one called bringing a "culture of life" to Canada.

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader 2010

  • The editorial also put great emphasis on what it called bringing about "a radical turn in the people's standard of living" in impoverished North Korea.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Bibis Italianissimo, a restaurant which he described as bringing "the ersatz glitz of the outsized Las Vegas cocktail lounge to a site abutting a car park".

    Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch feedback@caterersearch.com 2010

  • But Sandel is best at what he calls bringing "moral clarity to the alternatives we confront as democratic citizens."

    AroundTheCapitol.com 2009

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