hunting
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈhʌntɪŋ/
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- That's enough job hunting for one day.
- job hunting
- treasure hunting
Today's plan is apartment hunting again.
- Today's plan is apartment hunting again.
- Making money today is the modern version of going out and hunting, right?
- I started making a few short documentaries about things like UFO hunting and what else, infidelity.
- That's more like my idea of hunting nowadays, right?
Examples
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We have a full day of house hunting planned and I think you'll be very excited at what's available.
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Today's plan is apartment hunting again.
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No, I gotta go apartment hunting today.
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Then last week I was coming home from house hunting.
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And I'm gonna be apartment hunting in New York in August.
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Interesting patterns regarding the job-hunting experiences of new teachers emerge from this survey data.
Academic text (1995) -
We may be looking at a return to the hunting and gathering lifestyles of our ancestors.
Blog text (2) -
We should not spend our lives hunting for trivial satisfactions.
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Mary was on a job-hunting trip with her father to Redding.
Fiction book (1995) -
She spends her weekends hunting for rare vinyl records at flea markets.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An act of looking for something or someone
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1.0
A pursuit to catch someone or something
190
2.1
A careful search for something or someone
157
4.0
To follow and try to catch someone or something
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3.4
Exploring a place to find information, often to learn about the land or dangers
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6.1
Following an animal quietly to get near it before you hunt it
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2.7
Following animal or person tracks to find them
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6.3
A quiet search around a place for something
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6.9
Looking into crime or suspicious events like a detective
1
2.9
Trying to find or get something you want
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4.6
A careful search of a place to find something lost
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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3.4
An official document that allows a person to hunt and kill a certain animal during a set time
A group of people who live by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants
Hunting animals in a fenced area where they cannot escape, often called unfair to animals
- South African
A large wild dog from southern and eastern Africa that hunts in packs
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants for food and move from place to place
An activity of searching for and shooting small wild animals and birds for food or sport
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hunting comes from the same old verb hunt meaning 'to chase', and people soon used that idea for finding things as well as animals. So when you say you are hunting for a photo or a gift, you mean you are carefully chasing or looking for it.