going

present participle and gerund of goform-ofgerundparticiple

• I'm afraid I must be going.

Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.in-compounds

• theatre-going, church-going, movie-going

A departure.countableuncountable

• Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.
• But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]

The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.countableuncountable

• The going was very difficult over the ice.

Progress.countableuncountable

• We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.

Conditions for advancing in any way.countablefigurativelyuncountable

• Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.

Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.countablein-pluraluncountable

• His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

The whereabouts (of something).countableuncountable

• I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?

The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.countableuncountable

• Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

Likely to continue; viable.not-comparable

• He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.

Current, prevailing.not-comparable

• The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.

Available.especiallynot-comparable

• He has the easiest job going.