manning
- 1Present participle and gerund of man.
Volunteers are manning the phones during the fundraiser.
Manning the lighthouse alone tested his patience over the long winter.
Note
The -ing form doubles the n of man, as a short vowel before a single consonant requires. As a participle it builds the progressive (volunteers are manning the phones); as a gerund it heads a noun phrase (manning the lighthouse alone). It carries the verb's living senses, staffing something and taking up a post to operate it, whatever the crew's sex. Waiting on someone and taming a raptor to people are obsolete uses.
manning is a form of man
man, verb: To work at, operate, or be in charge of something, or to supply a place with the people needed to run it. Full entry
- Spelling
- man → manning: double the n, add -ing
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