to grant or receive (an advance payment of wages or salary)
6. (transitive) informal short for subedit
7. (transitive) photography
to apply a substratum to (a film or plate base)
subbing in American English
(ˈsʌbɪŋ)
noun Photography
1.
the act or process of applying a substratum
2.
the material used for a substratum
Word origin
[sub + -ing1]-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'subbing' in a sentence
subbing
But short of personally subbing them, that's not going to happen.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Knock his confidence big-time by subbing him twice.
The Sun (2006)
Instead, she began to help him with his work, test-reading chapters, subbing the text.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Then you can rotate the forwards, subbing on as games develop.