working

That is or are functioning.

Adjective

  1. That is or are functioning.
    • a working ventilator
  2. That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
    • a working copy of the script
    • a working title
  3. In paid employment.
    • Working mothers have recently joined the factory's workforce.
  4. Of or relating to employment.
    • the working week
  5. Enough to allow one to use something.
    • have a working knowledge of computers
  6. Used in real life; practical.
    • The working minimum focus distance is the distance from the closest focusable subject to the lens.
  7. Efficacious.
    • You ſee my Lord, what woorking woordes hee hath. But when you ſee his actions ſtop ^([sic – meaning top]) his ſpeech, Your ſpeech will ſtay, or ſo extol his worth, As I ſhalbe commended and excuſde For turning my poore...

Origin

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”).

Synonyms

functioning up: draft provisional temporary employed in employment work basic

Antonyms

broken broken-down down:

Hyponyms

known-working

Related

work

Derived

working alive working beam working bee working capital working class working conditions working day working definition working directory working dog working drawing working end working environment working family working farm working from home working girl working group working hours working hypothesis working knowledge working language working life working majority

Noun

  1. Operation; action.
  2. Method of operation.
  3. The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
    • Be sure to check your working.
  4. Fermentation.
  5. Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
  6. A place where work is carried on.
    • the abandoned mine workings
  7. A train movement.
    • From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these. - 1960...

Origin

From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

Forms

workings

Derived

cold working empty stock working even working homeworking home working hybrid working leather working miracle-working misworking permissive working sex working trip working vibe working warm working working capital requirement working horse working lunch working visit

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of work
    • Leave him alone; he’s working.