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goings-on

[ goh-ingz-on, awn ]

noun

Informal.
  1. conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism:

    We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.

  2. happenings; events:

    The American newspaper kept her in touch with the goings-on back home.



goings-on

plural noun

  1. actions or conduct, esp when regarded with disapproval
  2. happenings or events, esp when mysterious or suspicious

    there were strange goings-on up at the Hall

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of goings-on1

First recorded in 1765–75; noun use of present participle phrase going on
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Gertz, the attorney general, has said that it is “not credible†that local authorities didn’t know about goings-on at the ranch.

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Essentially the story of how I came to this book is that I used to investigate corruption in mining and oil deals in Africa and I saw how so many of them were linked to offshore companies, and to the goings-on of companies listed in Toronto and London and elsewhere.

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On paper, the unsettling drama explored the murky goings-on in the US logging town following the murder of teenage beauty queen Laura Palmer, hauntingly brought to life by Sheryl Lee.

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Court reporters are trusted to keep verbatim accounts of sworn testimony and other goings-on inside courtrooms.

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You get the sense he misses the goings-on of Westminster - he confesses that he still sticks to his MP timetable of returning to his former constituency every Thursday afternoon to Sunday.

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