adding
Britishnoun
adjective
-
of, for, or relating to addition
-
(in systemic grammar) denoting a bound clause that qualifies the meaning of an antecedent noun rather than of the sentence as a whole Compare contingency
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Spake agrees, adding "managing it in the terminal before people have their bottoms on the plane is so much easier".
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
In a 2025 interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick, Wintour maintains she found the film “highly enjoyable and very funny,” adding that she and Miuccia Prada still discuss it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Bracken added a seventh before Caluori took over the game, intercepting du Preez in midfield for his hat-trick score before adding a further two tries in the corner as Sale's missed tackle count reached 40.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The company is confident in its ability to find workers, Rayha said in an interview, adding that Electric Boat had received tens of thousands of applications in the past three years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
“This is enough for me,” he wrote Rush, adding that he knew Adams to be “always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes incorrect and precipitate in his judgments.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
