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cosseting en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.
    • It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother. 1966, Miss Read, The Market Square:
    • As Guy de Jonquières has noted, Singapore’s success owes more to the fact that it is a “meticulously planned economy” with “handholding and cosseting” of overseas investors by “powerful, eager to please bureaucrats”. 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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cosseting en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of cosset
    form of cosset