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• present participle of log.

logging

American  

[law-ging, log-ing] / ˈlɔ gɪŋ, ˈlɒg ɪŋ /

noun

• loggings
  plural

1. the process, work, or business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills.

2. Nautical. a deduction from the pay of a sailor, made as a fine or forfeit and recorded in the logbook of the ship.

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logging British  

/ ˈlɒɡɪŋ /

noun

1. the work of felling, trimming, and transporting timber

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• loggings
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of logging

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10; log ¹ + -ing ¹

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Example Sentences

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logging loggings

As workloads mount and job security ebbs, employees are logging in on Sundays to tackle unfinished tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

VPNs are commonly used to trick a site into thinking a user is logging on from another country, giving the user access to the site.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Assembly Bill 2494 aims to pivot state demonstration forests away from commercial logging toward ecotourism and Indigenous stewardship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

"And protection must go beyond avoiding deforestation. Avoiding forest disturbances from wildfires or logging delivered the greatest benefits for forest biodiversity."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the years since I’d first started reading Arty’s Missives, it had become one of the most popular blogs on the Internet, now logging several million hits a day.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

There were "harvest homes" and "quilting bees" and "loggings" and "barn raisings."

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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