hawking
present participle ofhawk
| 单词 | hawking |
| 释义 | hawking present participle ofhawk hawk verb[T] uk/hɔːk/us/hɑːk/tosellgoodsinformallyinpublicplaces: On everystreetcornerthere weretradershawkingtheirwares. to sell something
Selling
Examplesofhawkinghawking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. However, there is a great deal of overlap between 'shopkeeping', 'hawking/carrying', and 'catering/victualling'. From theCambridge English Corpus A national regulation ofhawkingwas also introduced. From theCambridge English Corpus It requires ways and means to effect trading -hawking, soliciting, bargaining, dealing. From theCambridge English Corpus The poet ended up sounding like he washawkingfish from a street corner. From theCambridge English Corpus It is rare to find a couplehawkingtogether. From theCambridge English Corpus That did not work very well either, so she startedhawkinghard-boiled eggs with pepper (a popular snack). From theCambridge English Corpus Hawkingis offering a third way, alongside the beginning and the finite past. From theCambridge English Corpus Various attempts have been made to regulate and control borders, smuggling, informal trading,hawkingand migration, but people have often found ways to get around these restrictions. From theCambridge English Corpus Newsboyshawkingpapers on the streets inserted headlines into the play of urban texts. From theCambridge English Corpus This movement and trading has created a never-ending cycle of new types of business,hawking, trading and interaction, increasing the flux of people along the corridor. From theCambridge English Corpus Laser generated pair production andhawking-unruh radiation. From theCambridge English Corpus We want to prevent the planning authority fromhawkingthe land around. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That man startedhawkingcoal, and got quite a good business as a coal dealer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 A large amount of street trading is nothawkingin the ordinary sense of the word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There were all types of tenting andhawking, and little control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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