overnighting
- 1Present participle and gerund of overnight.
The hikers are overnighting at a shelter halfway up the trail.
Crews flying long routes often end up overnighting in distant cities.
Note
Two verbs share this -ing form. The common one is intransitive: hikers or flight crews overnighting somewhere are spending the night there, so a place usually follows. The other is American and transitive, and it takes a direct object: overnighting a contract means sending it for next-day delivery. Only the verb has an -ing form. Overnight as an adverb or adjective (an overnight stay) has none.
We're overnighting the signed contracts to the Chicago office.
Overnighting a package costs far more than standard shipping.
overnighting is a form of overnight
overnight, verb: To spend the night somewhere; to stay in a place for a single night. Full entry
- Forms
- overnightovernights he/she/itovernighting -ing formovernighted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- overnight → overnighting: add -ing
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