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1. giving, giftnoun

   the act of giving

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

   Synonyms:
   talent, natural endowment, endowment, gift

2. givingnoun

   the imparting of news or promises etc.

   "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

   Synonyms:
   gift

3. givingadjective

   disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return

   "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"

   Antonyms:
   stingy, ungenerous

   Synonyms:
   gift

4. big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhandedadjective

   given or giving freely

   "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

   Antonyms:
   ungenerous, stingy

   Synonyms:
   plentiful, magnanimous, bountiful, prominent, big, vainglorious, cock-a-hoop, free, braggy, good-looking, with child(p), fine-looking, large-minded, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, well-favoured, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, broad, swelled, handsome, fully grown, braggart(a), bighearted, expectant, freehand, tolerant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, heavy(p), well-favored, big(a), better-looking, self-aggrandising, boastful, full-grown, openhanded, adult, gravid, big(p), crowing, loose

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1. givingnoun

   Synonyms:
   conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction

How to use giving in a sentence?

1. Koji Wada:

   The government’s plan puts a big burden on the individual municipalities in giving out the vaccines, the big metropolitan areas like Tokyo may have the infrastructure to roll out the vaccinations smoothly, but more rural areas... could have more difficulty.

2. Bill Larkin:

   The Skiatook principal called and wanted me to come to graduation and said I would have a cap and gown, and they were giving me a diploma to honor me.

3. Gore Vidal:

   Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

4. Clive Pond:

   You know, they encourage us to get on Google Classroom and log into our Chromebooks. But really, most of the time, the teacher would just talk to us, not even about education or our classes and where we were at. they're trying to enforce things that I think they have no right to enforce. … These teachers are not medical officials and yet they're still giving out medical advice to us as kids when their job is to teach us and their job is to help us learn and achieve academic success.

5. President Donald Trump:

   We've done a lot, and we've achieved a lot -- as much or more than anybody over the first three years -- and we're really looking to giving a very, very positive message.

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