giving

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Act of bestowing

Nouns

1. giving, bestowal, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; cession, concession; delivery, giveaway; consignment; dispensation; communication; endowment; investment, investiture; award; almsgiving, charity, liberality; generosity, philanthropy (see benevolence); self-sacrifice, the supreme sacrifice; fund-raising (see request).

2. (free gift) gift, donation, present, cadeau, boon, favor; benefaction, grant; offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; gambit; bonus, bonanza.

3. (money given) allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute; alimony, pension; fee, recompense (see payment); consideration; bribe, bait; peace offering.

4. (money given as inheritance) bequest, legacy, devise, will; dot, appanage; voluntary settlement or conveyance, transfer; amortization.

5. (charity) alms, charity, largesse, bounty, dole, relief; outdoor relief, home relief; oblation, offertory; honorarium, gratuity, Christmas box, Easter offering, breadline; food stamps; tip, drink money, pourboire, lagniappe, baksheesh, premium. Slang, handout.

6. (one who gives) giver, grantor; contributor, donor, friend, testator, testatrix; feoffer, settlor; political donor, political action committee, PAC.

7. (unexpected gift) godsend, manna, windfall, blessing; pennies from heaven.

Verbs

1. give, donate, bestow, impart, confer, grant, accord, render, award, assign; present, give away, dispense, dispose of, deal, mete, or dole out (see apportionment); pay or squeeze out; come across; make a present, loosen the purse strings, chip in, contribute, subscribe; endow, settle upon, bequeath, will, leave, hand down, devise; hand or turn in; deliver, hand, pass, make, or turn over; entrust; consign, vest in; concede, cede, yield, part with, spend; pay (see payment).

2. furnish, supply, make available, help; administer or minister to; afford, spare; accommodate or favor with; shower down upon, lavish, pour, or thrust upon; cross, tickle, or grease the palm, bribe; tip; offer, sacrifice, immolate. Informal, fork over. Slang, kick in; cough up.

Adjectives — giving, given; allowed, allowable; donative, concessional; communicable; charitable, eleemosynary; liberal.

Adverbs — ex gratia.

Phrases — a small gift usually gets small thanks; Friday's child is loving and giving; charity begins at home; fear the Greeks bearing gifts; never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Quotations — It is more blessed to give than to receive (Bible), God loveth a cheerful giver (Bible), Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing (G. B. Shaw), Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving (Michael Greenberg).

Antonyms, see receiving, acquisition.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. bestowing, donating, granting, conferring, imparting, supplying, awarding, presenting, bequeathing, dispensing, doling out, passing out, handing out, contributing, distributing, remitting, transferring, conveying, consigning, communicating, yielding, giving up, furnishing, allowing, expending, lavishing, offering, ceding, permitting, tipping, parting with, endowing, producing, disgorging, pouring forth, discharging, emitting.

Ant. getting*, taking, appropriating.