FORWARDING Synonyms: 134 Similar and Opposite Words

forwarding 1 of 3

adjective

as in promoting

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forwarding

2 of 3

noun

as in assistance

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forwarding

3 of 3

verb

present participle of forward

as in encouraging

to help the growth or development of their foundation will help forward better relations between young people from those warring nations

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Recent Examples of forwarding

Noun

Certainly, Allen on Wednesday anticipated some fast-forwarding into the scheme of things. — Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026 Also, review your email account for unfamiliar forwarding rules or active login sessions. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 The teaser opens with a young Jean Valjean enduring the brutal years of his imprisonment before fast-forwarding to his new life and the inevitable pursuit by Inspector Javert, played by Tahar Rahim. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026 With the collaboration, customers will be able to leverage DHL’s freight forwarding division’s freight booking, customs, warehousing and associated logistics services, and ship their cargo on Vela’s sailboats. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 22 June 2026 Netgear makes a web interface available for managing more complex operations, such as port forwarding, DHCP/static IP assignment, and DNS configuration. — Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026 In Bluetooth Classic’s True Wireless Stereo (TWS) devices, one earbud acts as the primary, receiving the stereo stream from the phone and relaying audio to the secondary earbud—a forwarding or relay architecture. — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026 No, the Heat were not, are not, will not go down such a road again, not when roster continuity is so essential for seasons ahead, especially when one of those upcoming seasons will require the forwarding of a first-round pick to the Hornets. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026 Emails released in the latest tranche of Epstein documents released by the Justice Department appear to show Mountbatten-Windsor forwarding reports related to official visits and investment opportunities, including material involving Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Afghanistan. — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026

Verb

Revenue sharing can work when it is tied to active, substantive service rather than the act of forwarding a contact. — Oleg Levitas, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Skou pointed to freight forwarding giant DSV, which uses drones to move spare parts to offshore wind farms and between data centers. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 Thousands more, forwarding those accounts around the world, helped produce a people’s chronicle of 9/11 that corresponds with—rivals, really—the record seen on television and in print. — David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026 The operation closed in the 1990s, but some 20 years later, his friends encouraged him to make use of the lucky address and start a freight-forwarding shop, Patenaude said. — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 In addition to proof of citizenship, the new law requires a person to provide a physical address in South Dakota, other than a mail-forwarding service or post office box, to be registered for voting in state and local elections. — John Hult, States Newsroom, 28 Aug. 2026 Yet forwarding a humiliating image or adding a laughing reaction can make the attack feel much larger. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026 If Cornyn or Tillis were to vote against forwarding Blanche's nomination, along with every Democrat — as is expected — while the remaining Republicans voted for Blanche, the nomination would be stalled in the Judiciary Committee. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 16 July 2026 For emails relevant to your entire team, Basecamp provides an email forwarding feature. — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for forwarding

Adjective

Niccol personally assured us that Starbucks isn’t pursuing a Chipotle acquisition, and that the encouraging trends from its latest quarter are continuing.

— Alexa LoMonaco,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
For Hoffman, the evening’s results were encouraging but not necessarily conclusive, and the extensive use of guarantees should be taken with a grain of salt.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of encouraging

Noun

And those striving for zest under these circumstances may benefit from assistance from a mental health professional like a psychologist, a physical health provider like a physician, or a personal trainer or fitness instructor.

— Joan M. Cook, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
The government plans to support participating companies through loan guarantees and assistance with administrative requirements.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of assistance

Verb

This annual tradition provides live performances and holiday cheer while promoting donations to community food pantries.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Swank announced her first pregnancy on Good Morning America in October 2022, while promoting her ABC crime series, Alaska Daily.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of promoting

Noun

And the report also highlighted progress in women’s participation in farming, with 17 percent of field facilitation and producer unit management roles held by women.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Jones, 20, faces one count of facilitation of first-degree murder.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of facilitation

Verb

That said, Universal’s campaign seemed less interested in cultivating those audiences than in reaching people who would have a strong reaction to a two-minute trailer.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026
Today, those cultivating followers in addition to a wardrobe have eked out more elbow space.

— Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of cultivating

Verb

Schmit has written about the role of state policy in fostering health information exchange and its benefits to the public, such as tracking measles outbreaks.

— Alex Rosenblat — CalMatters, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026
But beyond fostering innovation in brain science, the building sets new standards for sustainability in research labs, which often use more energy than hospitals.

— Martin Cizmar, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of fostering

Noun

Dechalus is also charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026
Brass and the other two defendants — Courtney Price, 49, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Jateisha Herron, 33, of Boron, California — are charged with conspiracy to commit identity fraud in furtherance of a state felony.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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