regarding

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, regard +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: re‧gard‧ing
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ

Verb

regarding

1. present participle and gerund of regard

Preposition

regarding

1. Concerning, respecting.
   • 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

Synonyms

• about, apropos, with respect to; See also Thesaurus:about

Translations

concerning — see also with regard to,‎ as far as I'm concerned

Albanian: për sa i përket Arabic: بِالنِّسْبَة لِـ (bi-n-nisba(t) li-), بِالنِّسْبَة إِلَى (bi-n-nisba(t) ʔilā), فِي صَدَد (fī ṣadad) Egyptian Arabic: بالنسبة لـ (benesba le) Armenian: վերաբերյալ (hy) (veraberyal) Bashkir: тураһында (turahında) Belarusian: адно́сна (adnósna) Bulgarian: отно́сно (bg) (otnósno) Chinese: Mandarin: 關於 / 关于 (zh) (guānyú) Czech: ohledně (cs) Danish: vedrørende (da) Esperanto: pri (eo) Finnish: suhteen (fi), koskien (fi) French: quant à (fr), concernant (fr), à propos de (fr), au sujet de (fr) Galician: verbo de Georgian: დაკავშირებით (daḳavširebit) German: bezüglich (de) (+ genitive case), mit Bezug auf (+ accusative case) Greek: Ancient: περί (perí) (+ genitive) Hebrew: בנושא (benosé), באשר ל־ (beashér le-) Hindi: विषयक (hi) (viṣyak) Irish: i dtaca le Italian: in quanto a Japanese: ...に付いて (ja) (...について, ... ni　tsuite), ...に関して (ja) (...にかんして, ... ni kan shite), ...に対して (ja) (...にたいして, ... ni tai shite) Khmer: រីឯ (rii ʼae) Korean: ...에 관해서 (...-e gwanhaeseo), ...에 대한 (...-e daehan) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Persian: دربارهٔ (fa) (darbâre-ye) Polish: odnośnie (pl) (+ genitive case) Portuguese: sobre (pt), quanto a (pt) Romanian: privind (ro), în ce privește, în ceea ce privește Russian: относи́тельно (ru) (otnosítelʹno) (+ genitive case), каса́тельно (ru) (kasátelʹno) (+ genitive case), о(б) (ru) (o(b)) (+ prepositional case), насчёт (ru) (nasčót) (+ genitive case) Scottish Gaelic: ri linn, mu dheidhinn Somali: arrinta ku saabsan, la xiriidha Spanish: en cuanto a (es), en lo tocante a, con respecto a, respectando (es), respectivo a, pertinente a, atañendo (es), atañedero a, por lo que respecta a (es), respectante a, acerca de (es), a propósito de, que tiene que ver con, con respecto de, respecto a, respecto de Swedish: rörande (sv), angående (sv), beträffande (sv), gällande (sv) Tamil: குறித்து (ta) (kuṟittu) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: ilişkin (tr) Ukrainian: що́до (uk) (ščódo), відно́сно (vidnósno), стосо́вно (stosóvno) Vietnamese: về (vi) Yiddish: װעגן (vegn)

Noun

regarding (plural regardings)

1. The act by which something is regarded or observed.
   • 1844, Pope Gregory I, Morals on the Book of Job:

     […] God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     […] to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below […]

Derived terms

• nonregarding
• self-regarding
• unregarding

Anagrams

• gang-rider, regrading