LOGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logging mean? 

• LOGGING (noun)
  The noun LOGGING has 1 sense:

1. the work of cutting down trees for timber

  Familiarity information: LOGGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The work of cutting down trees for timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("logging" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Derivation:

log (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)

 Context examples 

A record of data captured about device logging functions, error logs, keystroke logs and device alarm history.

(Analysis of Data Log, NCI Thesaurus)

The spotted owl gained national prominence in the United States during the 1990s, when environmentalists' efforts to preserve its habitat resulted in federal measures forbidding logging on large swaths of land, as well as federal limits on the sales of harvested wood.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

The researchers suggest that the slow, incomplete recovery of species on abandoned farmland in Minnesota is likely happening in ecosystems around the world where land has been cleared for agriculture, logging or other human activities.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)