FEEING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

feeing

verb

present participle of fee, chiefly Scottish

as in employing

to provide with a paying job the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks

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Recent Examples of feeing But gut-feeing a nice day for Cam Ward against a beatable Biggies secondary. — Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 Now its 2026 races could have national importance, and both Republicans and Democrats are feeing cautiously optimistic. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 6 May 2026 Being here in the city that raised me is a dope feeing and putting a Knicks jersey on is pretty surreal for me. — Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026

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About 20 years ago, Hazleton passed the controversial Illegal Immigration Relief Act, which withheld permits from businesses employing undocumented immigrants and fined landlords who rented to them.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
The new mountaineering movies are delirious vicarious cinema, employing technological means and a filmmaking bravado that comes with them that would have been unimaginable three or four decades ago.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of employing

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The company began ramping up manufacturing and hiring earlier this year.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2026
Hospitals bolster their side by hiring risk adjustment specialists and employing AI tools, while health insurers hire payment integrity specialists and employ different AI tools.

— Leah Pierson, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of hiring

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Among the most intriguing possibilities, Brouhard said, is that Gulf nations exporting oil are surreptitiously paying Iran fees in exchange for safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz – even as they’re secured by US military escorts.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
The pay-as-you-go option is perfectly timed for Grand Theft Auto VI, allowing those who don’t own an Xbox, or who primarily play from a phone, to stream the game by paying for a bundle of hours.

— Tom Warren, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026