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working Noun

— The workings of something is how it functions. He showed us the machine's inner workings.

working

— adjective (= on the job) actively engaged in paid work the working population the ratio of working men to unemployed a working mother robots can be on the job day and night — adjective adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something the party has a working majority in the House a working knowledge of Spanish — adjective serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity discussed the working draft of a peace treaty they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects — adjective adopted as a temporary basis for further work a working draft a working hypothesis — adjective (= running, functional) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing in running (or working) order a functional set of brakes — noun a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

Synonyms working synonyms

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operation work functioning active running performance effective processing functional operative handling exertion endeavour effort attempt labour exploitation circulating busy acting workings working-class use trouble treatment toiling tillage rudimentary raising operational operating on the job going function doing approach advance action working hard vexation vanilla valid upkeep underlying unconstipated turn round treating travel tillable tentative

Topics working topics

What do people use working to talk about?

Social behavior Relationships Types of people

Working relationship

What words refer to a relationship between people who work together?

working relationship affiliation association partnership
What words refer to a group of people who work together?

partnership association office working group

Social behavior Relationships Neighbor

Examples working examples

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Simple sentences

You look very tired. You must have been working too hard.

I don't feel like working today.

I am accustomed to working hard.

I'm used to working all night.

I found him working in the garden.

He is working hard to pass the examination.

The writer is working on his new book.

I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.

Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.

Tom doesn't like working on an empty stomach.

Tom has been working hard.

We're working together.

I like working.

I'm working again.

Uh. How's that working?

He's not working much at the moment.

You are working too hard. Take it easy for a while.

We are working in the interest of peace.

At the end of a working day, everybody is in a hurry to get home.

Working together, they cleaned the entire house in no time.

The man in charge of the merry-go-round decided to make sure everything was working properly.

After working all week, we took it easy on Sunday.

Almost all the workers objected to working at night.

My watch stopped working.

The working group on data transfer, led by Ben Manny, will hold a meeting on Jan 14, 1999.

Our factories are working at full capacity.

What are you working for?

No sooner had we finished working on one tough problem than the president sent us yet another straight from the top.

The doctor advised him to stop working too much.

I'm working in Tokyo now.

I'm beat. I've been working from dawn to dusk.

Mary kept on working in spite of her illness.

The brake stopped working.

Though it was very late, he went on working.

Movie subtitles

After Zero appeared, other groups apparently became more hard-working.

The kind of economically driven civilization that today seems to be working rather better in the East.

As someone working in this office, do you not know whose orders you have to follow?

Well. that's not working in this town.

Actually, these days, I'm working on a tea which taste will show the person's mind.

I have been working hard at my pursuit of knowledge in the ways of the sword.

The way you're working those scissors, I'd say it's not yours, either.

Not working.

Please don't take me off the case, because if you take me off the case, that means I'm not working and if I'm not working, that means I have to think thoughts.

I'm really working hard here.

How's that working for you?

Yeah, so I got into school, and then my dad got sick, so now I'm working my way through school here.

Oh, my God, it's working.

They wanted to break us, but we and our Spanish friends will show them what 12,000 free men working on this Algerian land are capable of!

Which is why these lotto machines are working overtime.

I suspect that Director Pyotr either is one or is working with them.

Because you're working to wipe out the human race.

It's possible organizationally they're not working together.

We were only working together, because we had interests that were shared.

Then you're already working for me.

The program li was working on. It's germ weaponry. Banned by nearly every nation on Earth.

That would be ideal, but he's working an extraction in Ecuador.

But let me go on working.

Again the working-cIass quarters are cut off from the center.

It seems strange to find you working here instead of our own home.

A burly ruffian, but he can maul the toughest traitor on the plains into a pulp without even working up a sweat.

So how do you like working with Johnny?

Well, it's been nice working with you.

Is it still working?

Yes it's working.

This could be a trick. She could be working for them.

Is your radar still working?

WERE YOU WORKING ME, TOO? WAS THIS LITTLE FLING OF OURS JUST A WAY TO GET ME LOOKING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION?

If my wish were to come true like this. I have been working hard at my pursuit of knowledge in the ways of the sword.

News and current affairs

If so, then a key condition must be the self-respect that comes from working things out for ourselves, individually and collectively.

Working with partners, the World Bank is supporting financial strategies to assist developing countries in meeting the costs caused by climate change.

The prospect of a truly global community of nations working together to achieve the greater good for all is indeed exciting.

Last but not least is the imperative of working with and for women and young people.

Only by working together can the two countries lead the world economy out of its current doldrums.

With Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Grassley, Kaufman worked last year to pass a bill providing timely resources to federal law enforcement agencies working on recent financial fraud.

Arab countries, especially Egypt, had hundreds of thousands of their nationals working in Libya.

The Gulf countries, which have no citizens working in Libya, were the first to denounce Qaddafi.

It was during this era - roughly from 1948 to 1973 - that sociologists found that a majority of Americans had come to define themselves not as working class, but as middle class.

Nor does it help Americans' mood that they spend far more of their lives working than do citizens in Europe or, these days, even Japan.

With their backs against the wall, I predict, poor and working-class Americans will begin to agitate for social justice.

So I appeal to all of you working for newspapers, radio, and television stations outside the United States: it is to you that we - including those of us in America - must look to discover what our own government is doing.

I recently met an official working for a provincial Department of Propaganda and was impressed by his bold and straightforward comments on current affairs.

More than 40 countries and institutions have endorsed the New Deal way of working, committing themselves to building better partnerships - and to investing the required resources and political capital.

What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?

Three levers could be used to reach this goal: adjustment in nominal wages, extension of working time, and a reduction in social-security contributions (compensated for by an increase in value-added tax).

But Italian society has changed: most women are now working, and they are no longer willing to accept Belusconi's anachronistic and outrageous chauvinism.

The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism - and in some ways far more profound and humane.

Neither event is earth shattering, but, taken together, these two steps mean that a new system of international justice is working.

Even assuming stability in real estate prices, the global crisis surely will cause a fall in remittances by Africans working good jobs in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.

Fewer Africans working in rich countries will automatically translate into less money circulating in African countries.

A Ugandan doctor working in Norway, for instance, cares little about the cost of a beer in Kampala.

Another factor working in Africa's favor is its private companies' and consumers' low dependence on borrowed money.

We returned to Palestine in 1996 from Saudi Arabia, where my father had been working as a teacher.

Ms. Park once pledged to provide loans for working-class families from elementary school to college years, while contending that local universities should be empowered to have more autonomy.

A Japanese prime minister can be strong without exploiting domestic resentment against the country's neighbors, and conservative, patriotic, and pro-American while forging a healthy working relationship with China.

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