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Forwarding   /fˈɔrwərdɪŋ/   Listen
Forwarding

noun
1.
The act of sending on to another destination.  "The forwarding of resumes to the personnel department"
2.
The advancement of some enterprise.  Synonyms: furtherance, promotion.


Forward

verb
(past & past part. forwarded; pres. part. forwarding)
1.
Send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit.  Synonym: send on.



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"Forwarding" Quotes from Famous Books



... forbearance; proving how much better was "a dish of herbs where love is, than the stalled ox with hatred therewith." Moreover, they were all piously disposed; they were sensible that they owed a large debt of gratitude to Heaven for all its daily mercies in providing them with food and raiment, forwarding off from them sickness and sorrow, and giving them humble and contented hearts; and on this day, they felt how little were all worldly considerations, compared with the hopes which were held out to them through the great sacrifice which the ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... Denver syndicate saw its long deferred opportunity and grasped it. Long purses might be lacking, but not shrewd heads. The unfinished Plug Mountain was immediately bonded for more than it ever promised to be worth, and in the hottest heat of the forwarding strife it was extended at the rate of a mile a day until the welcome screech of its locomotive whistles was added to the perfervid clamor of the new camp in ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... who then sat upon the throne, gave orders that a descriptive Catalogue should be prepared of the books in the Imperial Library. And in order to enhance its literary value, his Majesty issued invitations to the leading provincial officials to take part in the enterprise by securing and forwarding to Peking any rare books they might be able ...
— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles
... does not directly contradict the purposes of a trust, the end of which is a control on power. The latter character, even when it is not in its extreme, will execute this trust but very imperfectly; and, if deviating to the least excess, will certainly frustrate instead of forwarding the purposes of a control on government. But when the House of Commons was to be new modelled, this principle was not only to be changed but reversed. Whilst any errors committed in support of power ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... and maintain law and order in the Province, also aid the Justice of the Peace in forwarding captured goods, ammunition, provisions, etc., to Pretoria, and see that you are not ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen


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