seeking

The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.

• […] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]

That seeks something specified.in-compoundsnot-comparable

present participle and gerund of seekform-ofgerundparticiple

• While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.