(politics, military, idiomatic) Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.

plural of ching

(mining, historical) A person employed to unhook the wagons at self-acting inclines.

(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective. / (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.