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| Main Entry: |
giving
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bestowing |
| Synonyms: | allowing, awarding, bequeathing, ceding, conferring, contributing, conveying, dispensing, distributing, doling out, donating, endowing, expending, furnishing, granting, handing out, imparting, offering, passing out, permitting, presenting, remitting, supplying, transferring, yielding |
| Antonyms: | appropriating, getting, taking |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate |
| Synonyms: | air, announce, be a source of, broadcast, carry, deliver, emit, express, furnish, impart, issue, notify, present, pronounce, publish, put, read, render, state, supply, transfer, transmit, utter, vent, ventilate |
| Antonyms: | conceal, keep, refrain, withhold |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, proffer |
| Synonyms: | administer, bestow, confer, dispense, display, evidence, extend, furnish, hold out, indicate, issue, manifest, minister, offer, pose, present, produce, provide, put on, render, return, set forth, show, tender, yield |
| Antonyms: | keep |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yield, collapse |
| Synonyms: | allow, bend, bow to, break, cave, cede, concede, contract, crumble, crumple, devote, fail, fall, flex, fold, fold up, give way, go, grant, hand over, lend, open, recede, relax, relent, relinquish, retire, retreat, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, surrender, weaken |
| Antonyms: | fight, hold up, withstand |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform action |
| Synonyms: | address, apply, bend, buckle down, cause, devote, direct, do, engender, lead, make, occasion, produce, throw, turn |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Giving. |
| Category: | 2. Transfer of Property |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
giving; bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award., almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity., [Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [U.S.]., grace, act of grace, bonus., allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention., bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance [more]; amortization., alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee (recompense); consideration., bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease., giver, grantor; donor, feoffer, settlor.
-verbs
deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower., present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out., pay; render, impart, communicate., concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend., give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign., intrust, consign, vest in., make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota., invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise., furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon., tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer; sacrifice, immolate.
-adjectives
giving; given; allowed, allowable; concessional; communicable; charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary; gratis; donative.
-phrases
auctor pretiosa facit; ex dono; res est ingeniosa dare [Ovid].
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| Antonyms: | receiving |
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| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | appropriation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, setting aside |
| Synonyms: | allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, budgeting, concession, donation, earmarking, endowing, funding, giving, grant, provision, setting apart, sponsoring, stipend, stipulation, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | keeping, refusal, rejection |
| Main Entry: | assignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | selecting or setting apart |
| Synonyms: | allocation, allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, ascription, assignation, attribution, authorization, choice, consignment, delegation, designation, determination, distribution, giving, grant, nomination, selection, specification, stipulation |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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