Definitions
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- adjective Attributive form of
present participle , noun.
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Examples
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Unlike David Cameron, I have no taste for diagnosing Broken Britain: the Edlington horror displayed only the familiar curse of drunken, drugged parents and the equally familiar inadequacy of some local authorities (if you must draw a governance moral out of Doncaster, it is that calling yourself an "inter-agency forum" and adopting a trendy present-participle - as in "Safeguarding Children Board" - doesn't necessarily make you efficient.)
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(Word purists, here is your cue to have at me for imposing present-participle status onto a word that isn't even a verb in the first place.)
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