working

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) Operation; action.
2. (countable, uncountable) Method of operation.
3. (countable, uncountable) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
4. (countable, uncountable) Fermentation.
5. (countable, uncountable) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
6. (countable, uncountable) A place where work is carried on.
7. (countable) A train movement.

Verb

present participle and gerund of work

Adj

1. (not-comparable) That is or are functioning.
2. (not-comparable) That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
3. (not-comparable) In paid employment.
4. (not-comparable) Of or relating to employment.
5. (not-comparable) Enough to allow one to use something.
6. (not-comparable) Used in real life; practical.
7. (not-comparable, obsolete) Efficacious.

work

• Noun
• Verb

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Concepts

travaillant

fonctionnement

marche

ouvrier

culture

travail

effort

exploitation

requête

professionnel

rouage

🛞

fonctionner

fonctionnel

jeu

qui marche

marcher

🚶

peine

Synonymes

operation

work

functioning

active

running

🏃

effective

performance

functional

processing

exertion

attempt

handling

endeavour

operative

effort

acting

circulating

exploitation

busy

labour

toiling

doing

action

approach

on the job

going

use

function

treatment

tillage

trouble

workings

raising

advance

rudimentary

operating

operational

working-class

effect

author

doer

at work

adequate

distress

démarche

cultivation

grassroots

competent

attendance

adapting

Traductions

funzionamento

Versuch

Bemühung

funcional

atılım

Mühsal

Mühe

afán

moeite

poging

bewerking

werkend

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɜːkɪŋ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: werking

Hérité de ancien anglais: wyrċing

Appartenant à écossais: wirking

Appartenant à néerlandais: werking

Appartenant à allemand: Wirkung

Hérité de moyen anglais: workyng

Hérité de ancien anglais: wyrċende

Appartenant à écossais: wirkand

Appartenant à néerlandais: werkend

Appartenant à allemand: wirkend

In summary

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.

Phrases

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

Ma fille, tu veux nous empêcher de travailler?

He supposedly was working that day .

Il travaillait ce jour-là.

Paul would be working in Nottingham .

Paul travaillerait à Nottingham.

The thing's not working !

He was also member of Congress Working Committee and Central Parliamentary Board .

Il était également membre du Comité de travail du Congrès et du Central Parlementary Board.

Since then Walser has been working as a freelance author .

Depuis lors, Walser travaille comme auteur indépendant.