working
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (General American) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪŋ
- Hyphenation: work‧ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċung (“working, work”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.
Noun
working (countable and uncountable, plural workings)
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Method of operation.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- Be sure to check your working.
- Fermentation.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- A place where work is carried on.
- the abandoned mine workings
Derived terms
Translations
operation; action
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method of operation
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fermentation
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becoming full of a vegetable substance
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Etymology 2
From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).
Verb
working
- present participle of work
- Leave him alone; he's working.
Adjective
working (not comparable)
- That is or are functioning.
- a working ventilator
- That suffices but requires additional work.
- a working copy of the script
- In paid employment.
- working mothers
- Of or relating to employment.
- the working week
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- a working knowledge of computers
- Practical (used in real life).
- the working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.
- the working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.
Synonyms
- (functioning): functioning; up (mainly used of computers)
- (that suffices but requires further work): draft, provisional, temporary
- (in paid employment): employed, in employment
- (of or relating to employment): work
- (enough to allow one to use something): basic
Antonyms
- (functioning): broken, broken-down, down (mainly used of computers)
Derived terms
Hyponyms
Translations
functioning
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suffices but requires additional work
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in paid employment
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of or relating to employment
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enough to allow one to use something
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Related terms
References
- “working”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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