fishing

About 18.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

2. noun The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3. noun Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

4. noun A fishery, a place for catching fish.
5. verb present participle and gerund of fish

Similar words

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Often followed by

and in for boats is industry village boat vessels

Word family

fishings