get about

verb

got about; got about or gotten about; getting about; gets about
Synonyms of get aboutnext

intransitive verb

1
: to become current : circulate
2
: to be up and about : begin to walk
able to get about again

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it got about that the company was having financial difficulties
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The tracker uses the same proprietary charger as the Air, and can also get about a day’s worth of battery in five minutes. — Victoria Song, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026 Amazon passed Microsoft in 2017 and now gets about three times as many approvals. — Marshall Ritzel,gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 Columnist Gustavo Arellano explains what Steve Hilton doesn’t get about Xavier Becerra’s parents. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 Booking’s roughly 9,000 engineers are getting about 30% more code into production, counting only merge requests that pass testing and quality control. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for get about

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of get about was in 1740

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get above oneself
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“Get about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20about. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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