regarding

Pluralregardings

1. 1
   aboutpreposition

   About or concerning a particular subject or matter.

   The committee issued a statement regarding the proposed budget cuts.

   He refused to comment regarding the ongoing investigation.

   Usageregarding the rules (not incorrect: regarding to the rules); about or concerning can usually replace it.

   Similarabout, concerning, on, re, respecting

   Note

   A participle that hardened into a preposition, keeping the verb's old meaning "to have to do with, to concern." It typically follows nouns of speech and statement, as in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, and introduces the topic.

2. 2
   viewingverb

   Present participle of regard.

   Regarding the offer as too risky, the family decided to wait.

   The critic spent an hour regarding the canvas before saying anything.

   UsageWhen it means judging, it takes as: regarding the offer as too risky.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every use of the verb regard, from plain looking (regarding the canvas) to judging. Once it stops needing anyone to do the regarding and simply means "about," it has become the preposition.

3. 3
   a gazenounrarecountable

   An act of looking at or observing something.

   Similarobservation, scrutiny, examination, look, study

   Note

   Its plural, regardings, appears in the 1845 translation of Pope Gregory I's Morals on the Book of Job, where God is "laid open to the regardings of our sight": there the of-phrase names the one looking, not what is seen. Melville also reaches for the noun in Moby-Dick (1851). Its natural company is nineteenth-century devotional and literary prose.

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