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Vetting vs Venting - What's the difference?

vetting | venting |

As verbs the difference between vetting and venting

is that vetting is present participle of lang=en while venting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between vetting and venting

is that vetting is a checking or investigation while venting is the act by which something is vented.

vetting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A checking or investigation.
  • * 2003 , Jean-Paul Brodeur, ?Peter Gill, ?Dennis Töllborg, Democracy, Law, and Security
    • The Military Intelligence Service in 1997 carried out nearly 18,000 security vettings , which resulted in 43 applicants being turned down because of a criminal record.

    venting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is vented.
  • * 2007 , Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century (page 94)
    • It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.