はたらく

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Japanese[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of はたらく – see the following entry.
働く
[verb] [from 1212] to work at a job, to labour
[verb] [from mid-1600s] to work properly, to operate, to function; to carry out one's function, to be effective, to come into play
[verb] [from 1665] (transitive) to perpetrate or commit a crime
[verb] [from 1769] (grammar) to conjugate; to inflect; to decline
(This term, はたらく, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)