forwarding

1. 1.

   the act of sending on to another destination

   “the forwarding of mail to a new address is done automatically”

   “the forwarding of resumes to the personnel department”

   Broadertransmission

   Narrowerreferral
2. 2.

   the advancement of some enterprise

   “his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career”

   Synonymsfurtherancepromotion

   Broaderadvancement

Other forms of forwarding

plural

forwardings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forwarding

What does forwarding mean?

forwarding means "the act of sending on to another destination". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forwarding?

forwarding has 3 syllables: for-war-ding. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹwɚdɪŋ/.

What is another word for forwarding?

Close synonyms include furtherance, promotion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forwarding a common word?

forwarding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.