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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

sport·ing / spôrting/ • adj. 1. connected with or interested in sports: a major sporting event. 2. fair and generous in one's behavior or treatment of others, esp. in a game or contest: it was not very sporting of Smith to hit Gonzales with that pitch. DERIVATIVES: sport·ing·ly adv. (in sense 2).

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