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say it: GET-ing
getting is a noun meaning "the act of acquiring something". It is pronounced /ˈɡɛtɪŋ/ — GET-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of acquiring something
“I envied his talent for acquiring”
“he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for getting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.