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  • verb Present participle of gist.
  • noun rare, nonstandard summary, summarization/summarisation

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Examples

  • For example, you may have a large number of documents for a contract negotiation, only a few pages are necessary for the final contract to be translated, and some can be translated at the "gisting" service level, which is quicker and less expensive.

    Dianna Huff's B2B MarCom Writer Blog 2009

  • Young people are often more conservative and prudish than their parents, avoiding any kind of experiment with life, whether it be sexual, hallucinogenic, expressive or otherwise, spending their free time in the church or the mosque or 'gisting'.

    naijablog 2009

  • Some of my hobbies include gisting, chatting online, reading, sleeping and travelling in no particular order.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Our daily routine include attending lectures, facing one struggle or the other, fighting for the rights of students, studying, gisting with friends or just do "God knows what" in harmless ways.

    In memory of the O.A.U 5: It's being 10 years! 2009

  • Some of my hobbies include gisting, chatting online, reading, sleeping and travelling in no particular order.

    Interview Thursday. "No Woman Should Lose her Identity" Says ALOTED 2009

  • Our daily routine include attending lectures, facing one struggle or the other, fighting for the rights of students, studying, gisting with friends or just do "God knows what" in harmless ways.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • First she will not meet me at home tomorrow, second, I hope she will not have a boring time with my husband that she will me at home cos that one (my husband) only find it very convenient gisting and playing with me!!!

    This Holiday: 2008

  • First she will not meet me at home tomorrow, second, I hope she will not have a boring time with my husband that she will me at home cos that one (my husband) only find it very convenient gisting and playing with me!!!

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • So it was that one afternoon during break time, I was in the class gisting with my friends when this junior boy walked in.

    Archive 2008-08-01 princesa 2008

  • So it was that one afternoon during break time, I was in the class gisting with my friends when this junior boy walked in.

    SECRET ADMIRER princesa 2008

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