noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act by which something is forwarded.

   "A third oil company, Gulf, is soon to join Esso and BP in rail forwardings from this port."

2. 2
   the act of sending on to another destination wordnet
3. 3
   the advancement of some enterprise wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of forward form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

accelerationadvanceadvancementcareerconducivecourse

Example

More examples

"She vacated the apartment a month ago and left no forwarding address."

Related phrases

auto-forwardingcall forwardingforwarding addressforwarding planeport forwarding

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.