Tackling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.

    "His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […]"

  2. 2
    The tackle of a vessel.
  3. 3
    The harness for drawing a carriage.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tackle form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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apparatusequipmentgearmachinerymaterialmateriel

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"The writer is tackling the now new novel."

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blocking and tackling

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