dialoguing
- 1Present participle and gerund of dialogue.
Community leaders kept dialoguing with city officials throughout the crisis.
Dialoguing across departments helped the company catch the error early.
Note
The -ing form carries three different verbs at once. Most often it is the informal one, about talking things through toward an understanding, and it usually takes with: dialoguing with city officials. In careful writing, discussing or negotiating may sit better. The transitive verb means turning material into dialogue form, as a writer might do with a scene. An older use, simply taking part in a dialogue, is now obsolete.
dialoguing is a form of dialogue
dialogue, verb: To hold discussions or negotiations aimed at bringing all sides to a shared understanding. Full entry
- Spelling
- dialogue → dialoguing: drop the e, add -ing
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