notifying
SayNOH-ti-fy-ingUS/ˈnoʊtɪfaɪɪŋ/UK/ˈnəʊtɪfaɪɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of notify.
The company began notifying customers as soon as the breach was discovered.
Notifying the next of kin is the officer's most difficult duty.
Note
In current use, the person comes first: a company is notifying customers of a breach, an officer notifying the next of kin. Taking the news itself as the object, as in notifying a decision in the sense of making it known, is obsolete. So is notifying in the sense of making note of something. Today the person is the object, and the news follows with of.
notifying is a form of notify
notify, verb: To inform someone formally of something, or to report a fact, event, or decision officially. Full entry
- Spelling
- notify → notifying: add -ing
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