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including

prepositionverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪnˈkluːdɪŋ//
  • //ɪŋˈkluːdɪŋ//

Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.

preposition

  1. 1

    Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.

    All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.

    All you have to do is to fill in the details, including your name and address and the amount you wish to give.

  2. 2

    rareIntroducing a finite clause.

    I have always argued that it is one that deserves a thorough-going policy review, which might come to all sorts of conclusions, including it is doing what the Government of the day wants it to.

Etymology

By surface analysis, include + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of includepresent participle and gerund of include

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).