going

1. (countable, uncountable)A departure.

2. (countable, uncountable)The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.

   The going was very difficult over the ice.

3. (countable, uncountable)Progress.

   We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.

   Fortschritt

4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Conditions for advancing in any way.

   Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.

   Weiterkommen

   advancing toward a goal

5. (countable, in the plural, uncountable)Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.

6. (countable, uncountable)The whereabouts (of something).

   I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?

7. (countable, uncountable)The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.

   Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

1. I don't approve of such goings-on.

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2. "I don't know. I don't keep track of their comings and goings."

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3. I don't keep track of her comings and goings!

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4. It was an ordinary year, no especial disappointments. Just the run of the mill goings-on of a dual-income household.

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