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goings-on
[ goh-ingz-on, awn ]
noun
- conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism:
We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.
- happenings; events:
The American newspaper kept her in touch with the goings-on back home.
goings-on
plural noun
- actions or conduct, esp when regarded with disapproval
- happenings or events, esp when mysterious or suspicious
there were strange goings-on up at the Hall
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of goings-on1
Example Sentences
Gertz, the attorney general, has said that it is “not credible†that local authorities didn’t know about goings-on at the ranch.
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.
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.
Court reporters are trusted to keep verbatim accounts of sworn testimony and other goings-on inside courtrooms.
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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