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working definition

work·ing (wʉr′kiŋ)

adjective

  1. that works
  2. of, for, used in, or taken up by work a working day, working clothes
  3. sufficient to allow work to be done a working majority
  4. on which further work is or may be based a working hypothesis
  5. moving or jerking convulsively, as from emotion: said of the face, features, etc.

noun

  1. the act or process of a person or thing that works
  2. the process of forming or shaping something
  3. convulsive movement or jerking, as of the face
  4. slow or gradual progress involving great effort or exertion
  5. a part of a mine, quarry, etc. where work is or has been done

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working Synonyms

working

modif.

  1. Functioning

    toiling, laboring, moving, in process, in good condition, in force, in gear, in collar, in exercise, going, twitching, effective, practical, on the job, never idle, on fire*.

  2. Employed

    with a job, having a job, engaged, on the staff; see employed.


working

n.

operation, performance, functioning, fashioning, manipulation.


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working Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • facilitate: Where necessary, support will be provided to facilitate effective team working.

Adjective modifier

  • flexible: Flexible working has also been a problem for many parents the report suggests.

Modifies a noun

  • days.: Your existing number will then be ported within 5 to 7 working days. How do I port my number to Orange?

Noun used with modifier

  • multi-agency: For example, in one school in an area of significant social disadvantage, multi-agency working was embedded in classroom practice.
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working quotes

Labour isn't working.

-Anonymous

That vast portion†of the working-class which, raw and half-developed has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding- place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes,breaking what it likesötothisvast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.

-Arnold, Matthew

A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.

-Carlyle,Thomas

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