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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Going \Go"ing\, n.
     1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going
        is bad.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Departure. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
              his goings.                           --Job xxxiv.
                                                    21.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Going barrel. (Horology)
        (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth
            on its periphery to drive the train.
        (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train
            while the timepiece is being wound up.
  
     Going forth. (Script.)
        (a) Outlet; way of exit. ``Every going forth of the
            sanctuary.'' --Ezek. xliv. 5.
        (b) A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be
            from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 4.
  
     Going out, or Goings out. (Script.)
        (a) The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go
            down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at
            the salt sea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 12.
        (b) Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their
            goings out according to their journeys.'' --Num.
            xxxiii. 2.
  
     Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad
        sense.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Going \Go"ing\, n.
     1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going
        is bad.
  
     2. Departure. --Milton.
  
     3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew.
  
     4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
  
              His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
              his goings.                           --Job xxxiv.
                                                    21.
  
     Going barrel. (Horology)
        (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth
            on its periphery to drive the train.
        (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train
            while the timepiece is being wound up.
  
     Going forth. (Script.)
        (a) Outlet; way of exit. ``Every going forth of the
            sanctuary.'' --Ezek. xliv. 5.
        (b) A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be
            from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 4.
  
     Going out, or Goings out. (Script.)
        (a) The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go
            down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at
            the salt sea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 12.
        (b) Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their
            goings out according to their journeys.'' --Num.
            xxxiii. 2.
  
     Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad
        sense.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  goings on
     n.
     (alternative spelling of en goings-on)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  goings on
     n.
     (alternative spelling of en goings-on)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  goings on
     n.
     (alternative spelling of en goings-on)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  goings on
     n.
     (alternative spelling of en goings-on)

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  goings on /ɡˈəʊɪŋz ˈɒn/
  navika, način života, ponašanje

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "goings on":
     action, actions, activeness, activism, activity, acts, address,
     affairs, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern,
     behavioral norm, behavioral science, business, carriage,
     circumstances, comportment, concerns, condition of things,
     conditions, conduct, culture pattern, custom, dealings, demeanor,
     deportment, doing, doings, folkway, gestures, guise, life,
     maintien, manner, manners, march of events, matters, method,
     methodology, methods, mien, militancy, modus vivendi, motion,
     motions, movement, movements, moves, observable behavior, pattern,
     poise, political activism, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis,
     presence, procedure, proceeding, proceedings, relations,
     run of things, social science, state of affairs, stir, style,
     tactics, the times, the world, tone, way, way of life, ways,
     what happens
  
  

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