working

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

present participle and gerund of work

Adj

1. That is or are functioning.
2. That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
3. In paid employment.
4. Of or relating to employment.
5. Enough to allow one to use something.
6. Used in real life; practical.
7. (obsolete) Efficacious.

Concepts

working

operation

work

functioning

active

performance

running

effective

functional

processing

attempt

effort

endeavour

exertion

labour

operative

handling

acting

busy

circulating

exploitation

trouble

raising

tillage

advance

approach

action

doing

function

operational

toiling

on the job

workings

going

use

treatment

operating

rudimentary

working-class

labor

struggle

cultivation

culture

ache

distress

pain

penalty

punishment

retribution

soreness

vexation

démarche

causing

behaviour

system

at work

engaged

occupied

efficacious

author

doer

maker

making

performing

hardworking

laborious

play

practice

activity

job

procedure

machining

attendance

maintenance

service

upkeep

revolve

run

start-up

travel

turn round

be running

introductory

prefatorial

prefatory

preliminary

preparatory

probationary

provisional

provisionary

tentative

pit

stone pit

basal

basic

cardinal

elementary

essential

fiducial

fundamental

grassroots

no-frills

primal

primary

run-of-the-mill

underlying

vanilla

adequate

adequate to

comfortable

competent

enough

satisfactory

sufficient

alive

live

operable

regular

unconstipated

effect

laboring

management

adapting

treating

working hard

valid

request

arable

tillable

open

employed

employee

Hyphenated as

work‧ing

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɜːkɪŋ/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

While working with Quechua Indians , Elliot began preparing to reach the Huaorani .

A peasant occupying or working a bovate might be known as a 'bovater.