hoisting

Etymology

noun

  1. The act by which something is hoisted.
    The Madras government allowed flag hoistings in particular circumstances[…] 2007, Lisa N. Trivedi, Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India
  2. (programming) The behaviour of Javascript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of hoist

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