working
IPA: wˈɝkɪŋ
noun
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Method of operation.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- Fermentation.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (countable) A train movement.
- A surname from German.
adjective
- That is or are functioning.
- That suffices but requires additional work.
- In paid employment.
- Of or relating to employment.
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- Used in real life; practical.
- (obsolete) Efficacious.
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Examples of "working" in Sentences
- Fairbairn earned his moniker working as a cop in the 1920s and 1930s on the Shanghai waterfront.
- The editors figured, We're all working really hard, so let's put in a word that means working really hard.'
- Mubarak said he would serve out the rest of his term working to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" and carry out amendments to rules on presidential elections.
- Somber but firm - without an air of defeat - he said he would serve out the rest of his term working "to accomplish the necessary steps for the peaceful transfer of power."
- The entering of all these particulars in the log-book is termed _keeping the dead reckoning_, and the working out of the calculations just referred to is called _working up the days work_.
- The term working through was originally used by Freud to describe the continuing application of analytic work to overcome resistances persisting after the initial interpretation of repressed instinctual impulses.
- In a half-way concession to hundreds of thousands of protesters, Mubarak said in Egypt that he would serve out the rest of his term working to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" and new rules on presidential elections.
- But, he added, his voice trembling with indignation, while I have been contriving and working that my father may have some peace of mind before he dies, working for the respectability of our family, you have done all you can to destroy both.
- The other thing keep in mind when you use the term working capital is that at principle working capital is really receivables and our growth in receivables right now is to a large degree because of higher revenues, probably concurrency but be that it may.
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