1 [C] a situation in which a person is shot with a gun:
Terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the shootings and bomb attacks. * Police rushed to the scene of the shooting and found one person dead and three wounded.
2 [U] the sport of shooting animals and birds with guns:
grouse shooting * the shooting season
3 [U] the process of filming a film/movie:
Shooting began early this year. * She was exhausted after a day's shooting.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shooting is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shooting a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shooting is tagged as noun.
Does shooting appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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