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feat: improvements on Glossary/Hoisting #33787

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JavaScript **Hoisting** refers to the process whereby the interpreter appears to move the _declaration_ of functions, variables, classes, or imports to the top of their scope, prior to execution of the code.
JavaScript **Hoisting** refers to the process whereby the interpreter appears to move the _declaration_ of functions, variables, classes, or imports to the top of their {{glossary("scope")}}, prior to execution of the code.

_Hoisting_ is not a term normatively defined in the ECMAScript specification. The spec does define a group of declarations as [_HoistableDeclaration_](https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statements-and-declarations.html#prod-HoistableDeclaration), but this only includes [`function`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function), [`function*`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function*), [`async function`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function), and [`async function*`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function*) declarations. Hoisting is often considered a feature of [`var`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/var) declarations as well, although in a different way. In colloquial terms, any of the following behaviors may be regarded as hoisting:

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## See also

- [`var` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/var) — MDN
- [`let` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/let) — MDN
- [`const` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/const) — MDN
- [`function` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function) — MDN
- [`var` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/var)
- [`let` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/let)
- [`const` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/const)
- [`function` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function)
- [`class` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/class)
- [`import` statement](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import)