broadcasting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔdkæstɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑdkæstɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

broadcasting (not comparable)

1. Sending in all directions.

Noun

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broadcasting

Wikipedia

broadcasting (countable and uncountable, plural broadcastings)

1. (business) The business or profession of radio and television.

   Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air.

2. The act by which something is broadcast.

   frequent broadcastings of the same old material

3. (agriculture) The act of spreading seeds over a wide area.
   • 1920, Union of South Africa Department of Agriculture Report on Agricultural Education for the Year 1st April, 1918, to 31st March, 1919., Cape Town, South Africa, page 43:

     The results show less difference in drilling as against broadcasting of oats than wheat.

Derived terms

• brandcasting
• lifecasting
• microbroadcasting
• mobilecasting
• multicasting
• nonbroadcasting
• prebroadcasting
• pubcasting
• slivercasting
• sportscasting
• thought broadcasting

Translations

business or profession of radio and television

Afrikaans: uitsaai Arabic: إِذَاعَة f (ʔiḏāʕa) Azerbaijani: veriliş (az), ötürmə Belarusian: вяшча́нне n (vjaščánnje) Bengali: সম্প্রচার (bn) (śomprocar) Bulgarian: преда́ване (bg) n (predávane) Catalan: radiodifusió (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 廣播 / 广播 (zh) (guǎngbò) Czech: vysílání (cs) n Danish: udsendelse c, sending c Estonian: ülekanne, ringhääling French: radiodiffusion (fr) f, émission (fr) f, diffusion (fr) f German: Rundfunk (de) m, Sendung (de) f, Übertragung (de) f Hindi: प्रसारण (hi) m (prasāraṇ) Italian: trasmissione (it) f, radiodiffusione (it) f Japanese: 放送 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō) Korean: 방송(放送) (ko) (bangsong) Latvian: pārraide f Lithuanian: transliavimas m Macedonian: емитување n (emituvanje), радиодифузија f (radiodifuzija) Malay: penyiaran (ms) Norwegian: kringkasting m, rikskringkasting m Polish: nadawanie (pl) n Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f Romanian: difuzare (ro) f Russian: веща́ние (ru) n (veščánije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: емитовање n, емѝсија f, дѝфӯзија f Roman: emitovanje n, emìsija (sh) f, dìfūzija (sh) f Slovak: vysielanie n Slovene: oddajanje n Spanish: retransmisión f, emisión (es) f, radiodifusión Swedish: sändning (sv) c Tamil: ஒலிபரப்பு (ta) (oliparappu) Turkish: yayım (tr), yayın (tr) Ukrainian: мо́влення n (móvlennja), віща́ння n (viščánnja) Urdu: نَشْرِیّات f (naśriyyāt) Uzbek: eshittirish (uz)

Verb

broadcasting

1. present participle and gerund of broadcast

   This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104 MHz.

   We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.