working
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
working/ˈwɜːkɪŋ/
▶adjective
- 1 having paid employment.
■ engaged in manual labour.
■ (of an animal) used in farming, hunting, or for guard duties.
- 2 functioning or able to function.
■ (of parts of a machine) moving and causing a machine to operate.
- 3 good enough as the basis for work or argument and likely to be developed or improved later: a working title.
- 1 a mine or a part of a mine from which minerals are being extracted.
- 2 (workings) the way in which a machine, organization, or system operates.
■ the record of the successive calculations made in solving a mathematical problem.
- 3 a scheduled duty or trip performed by a locomotive, bus, etc.
'working' also found in these Oxford entries:
action
- active
- after
- allied
- artel
- asynchronous
- audit
- auditor
- automatic
- banker's hours
- barefoot doctor
- bargee
- beaver
- bevel gear
- bevel wheel
- blackleg
- blink
- bloom
- broken-down
- buck
- buddy
- camp follower
- career
- cat ladder
- cerebration
- chain gang
- childcare
- cloth cap
- clutch
- collective noun
- commission
- condition
- constructive dismissal
- cordless
- core time
- cranky
- crèche
- danger money
- day
- deal
- demiurge
- desktop
- dinky
- diplomatic immunity
- diving suit
- efficient
- ergonomics
- Eurotrash
- exclusive OR
- Fablon
