Usually means: Applying force or effort actively.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. exerting: Merriam-Webster
  2. exerting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. exerting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Exerting, exerting: Wordnik
  5. exerting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. exerting: Wiktionary
  7. Exerting, exerting: Dictionary.com
  8. exerting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Exerting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Exerting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. exerting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. exerting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. exerting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exerting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See exert as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (exert)

verb:  (transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
verb:  (reflexive) To put in vigorous action.
▸ Also see exert


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