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logging

logging

67 3.1
Cutting down trees to get wood for building or sale
  • noun
  • /ˈlɔɡɪŋ/
translation icon : tala
  • The government is regulating logging to protect endangered forests.
  • illegal logging
  • selective logging
  • logging industry

Well, over the years that worked until the environmentalist stopped the logging and we no longer got that.

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Examples

  • Eventually, the logging camp closed, and the land became the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The forests of Sarawak are currently being transformed by selective logging to supply world markets for tropical timber.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We got three weeks of the worst logging coming up.

  • - Here in BC, and across North America, when they do industrial logging they actually take and just remove all the trees.

  • My father knew all of that; his family lost a logging mill in the Depression.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • So, state budgets come from logging revenues.

  • The bear ambles along an old logging road over a bridge, making his way to a small pond.

    Academic text (2011)
  • State governments have control over forests and the power to grant logging concessions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We were measuring how the foxes were being displaced due to logging of native forest.

  • They've lived in the rainforest since forever, but all their land is being destroyed because of logging.

Synonyms

lumbering
vslogging
  • US
2 4.9

The business of cutting and selling wood

focuses on cutting trees rather than the commercial selling aspect
timbering
vslogging
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Cutting and preparing trees to make wood for building

focuses mainly on the act of cutting trees for timber sale
woodcutting
vslogging
2.8

Cutting down trees to get wood for fuel or building

refers to cutting trees specifically for timber as a business

Compounds

sustainable logging
  • Specialized
4.1

To cut trees in a way that keeps the forest healthy for the future

How Extensive

deforestation
18 4.3
to clear-cutting
  • Specialized
1 6.6
logging
67 3.1
fell
7.0

Surface Forms

logging singular
loggings plural

Morphology

logging = log (transparent) = log + ing

A regular noun/gerund formed from the verb 'log' with -ing to denote the activity of cutting trees; meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word logging comes from the simple word log, which meant a 'large piece of wood' or 'tree trunk'. So logging is the work of cutting trees into logs, which is why it means cutting down trees for timber.