bringing

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bring.

   The committee is bringing new safety rules into effect next month.

   Bringing the children to the museum was entirely her idea.

   Note

   The same -ing form does two jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (is bringing new rules into effect). As a gerund it fills a noun's slot yet stays verb enough to take a direct object: bringing the children, bringing charges. That bare object is the quickest way to tell it from the noun for the act, which needs of: the bringing of gifts.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act by which something is brought to a place or person.

   Tradition required the bringing of gifts to the host at every wedding.

   The bringing of supplies across the flooded valley demanded careful planning.

   Similardelivery, carrying, conveyance, transport

   Oppositeremoval

   Note

   Here bringing is a full noun and countable, with the plural bringings. Michael J. Zimmerman's An essay on human action (1984) writes of "indirect bringings about", making the phrasal verb bring about into a count noun for acts of causing. Notice where the plural goes: the -s attaches to bringing and the particle about follows it, so the phrase is bringings about, never bringing-abouts.

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