excerpting

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noun

The act of taking an excerpt.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of excerpt
nounexcerpting (plural excerptings)

plural excerptings

  1. The act of taking an excerpt.

    The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings.

    1999, Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown, Russell Wheatley, Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
snippeting
Cite this entry
APA

excerpting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpting

MLA

“excerpting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excerpting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerpting.

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