footing
IPA: fˈʊtɪŋ
noun
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- A standing; position; established place; foothold.
- A relative condition; state.
- (dated) A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
- (rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
- Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
- The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
- A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
- (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- (accounting) A double-check of the numbers vertically.
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Examples of "footing" in Sentences
- Proper footing is key in not getting yourself hurt.
- When it announced the sell-off in September 2009, the IMF said the move was an important step in putting its finances on a "sound long-term footing".
- The finance unit now is on significantly firmer, longer-term footing—thanks in part to paring back its reliance on short-term borrowing—and problem loans have been contained.
- While a less-indebted public sector will put the economy on better long-term footing, short-term cuts can have immediate effects at a time when the economy is struggling to create jobs.
- An hour later we made our way across the poop to the chart-house, helping each other to maintain footing as the Elsinore plunged and bucked in the rising sea and was pressed over and down by the weight of wind on her few remaining set sails.
- And while that might be true for the vast number of engineers who define the company's internal culture, the external impression of Google being just another tech titan like Microsoft will gain footing, making the audience for Google's messages less tolerant of ambiguity and less forgiving of mistakes.
- This was the generous view of the American public, an assumption that voters had what Dunn called a “very sophisticated” understanding of how reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reforming our bloated health care system, and fixing our public schools were all connected to putting the economy on a sounder long-term footing.
- IMO, although the journey to a sound economic footing is severally, trustworthy, commencing within uncertaintly is the undesireable reality, elstwhile, the end-point is only an ‘upturn’; ending with a familiar economy is desireable, yet often this may be impossible; working with extant resources effectively is the only real goal, and yet there is naught, any, alternative!
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