occasioning
- 1Present participle of occasion.
The merger is occasioning significant uncertainty among the company's employees.
Sudden frost, occasioning damage to the orchards, drove fruit prices up that winter.
Note
One spelling, two jobs: the -ing form works as a participle in progressive and descriptive clauses, and as a gerund that behaves like a noun (the risk of occasioning delay). Either way the verb is transitive, so an object always follows: occasioning damage, occasioning doubt. It is the active face of the noun occasion in its 'cause' meaning. An occasion is a cause, and occasioning is causing.
occasioning is a form of occasion
occasion, verb: To bring something about as its cause; to produce or give rise to a result. Full entry
- Forms
- occasionoccasions he/she/itoccasioning -ing formoccasioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- occasion → occasioning: add -ing
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