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Working   /wˈərkɪŋ/   Listen
Working

adjective
1.
Actively engaged in paid work.  Synonym: on the job.  "The ratio of working men to unemployed" , "A working mother" , "Robots can be on the job day and night"
2.
Adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something.  "A working knowledge of Spanish"
3.
Adopted as a temporary basis for further work.  "A working hypothesis"
4.
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing.  Synonyms: functional, operative, running.  "A functional set of brakes"
5.
Serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity.  "They need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects"
noun
1.
A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked.  Synonym: workings.


Work

verb
(past & past part. worked or wrought; pres. part. working)
1.
Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.  "She worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"  Antonym: idle.
2.
Be employed.  Synonym: do work.  "My wife never worked" , "Do you want to work after the age of 60?" , "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money" , "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
3.
Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected.  Synonym: act.  "How does your idea work in practice?" , "This method doesn't work" , "The breaks of my new car act quickly" , "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"
4.
Perform as expected when applied.  Synonyms: function, go, operate, run.  "Does this old car still run well?" , "This old radio doesn't work anymore"  Antonym: malfunction.
5.
Shape, form, or improve a material.  Synonyms: process, work on.  "Process iron" , "Work the metal"
6.
Give a workout to.  Synonyms: exercise, work out.  "My personal trainer works me hard" , "Work one's muscles" , "This puzzle will exercise your mind"
7.
Proceed along a path.  Synonym: make.  "Make one's way into the forest"
8.
Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty.  "The salesman works the Midwest" , "This artist works mostly in acrylics"
9.
Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity.  "She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived" , "Start from the bottom and work towards the top"
10.
Move in an agitated manner.
11.
Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.  Synonyms: bring, make for, play, wreak.  "Wreak havoc" , "Bring comments" , "Play a joke" , "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
12.
Cause to work.  Synonym: put to work.
13.
Prepare for crops.  Synonyms: crop, cultivate.  "Cultivate the land"
14.
Behave in a certain way when handled.  "The soft metal works well"
15.
Have and exert influence or effect.  Synonyms: act upon, influence.  "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
16.
Operate in or through.
17.
Cause to operate or function.  "Can you work an electric drill?"
18.
Provoke or excite.
19.
Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence.
20.
Make something, usually for a specific function.  Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, shape.  "Form cylinders from the dough" , "Shape a figure" , "Work the metal into a sword"
21.
Move into or onto.  "The student worked a few jokes into his presentation" , "Work the body onto the flatbed truck"
22.
Make uniform.  Synonym: knead.  "Work the clay until it is soft"
23.
Use or manipulate to one's advantage.  Synonym: exploit.  "She knows how to work the system" , "He works his parents for sympathy"
24.
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.  Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work out.  "Work out your problems with the boss" , "This unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out" , "Did you get it?" , "Did you get my meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"
25.
Cause to undergo fermentation.  Synonym: ferment.  "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
26.
Go sour or spoil.  Synonyms: ferment, sour, turn.  "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
27.
Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion.



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... rebels, and whoever should seize such should have the fines, so unjustly imposed, for their reward; with a particular sum offered for apprehending any of the conventicle preachers, and this sum doubled for some that were more eminent among them, and diligent in working the work of him that sent them, against whom their malice was more especially turned. These rigorous measures they continued to prosecute; and in the year 1675, letters of intercommuning were given out against ...
— Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive • The Reformed Presbytery
... Well, I don't pretend to be a seer or a prophetess," she presently replied; "but if I'm simply a woman of sense he's working for you to-night. I don't quite know how—but it's in my bones." And she looked at him at last as if, little material as she yet gave him, he'd really understand. "For an opinion THAT'S my opinion. He makes you out ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
... emancipation. The North is fighting for Union, for that ensures emancipation. [Loud cheers, "Oh, oh!" "No, no!" and cheers.] A great many men say to ministers of the Gospel: "You pretend to be preaching and working for the love of the people. Why, you are all the time preaching for the sake of the Church." What does the minister say? "It is by means of the Church that we help the people," and when men say that we are fighting for the Union, I too ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various
... were genuine efforts to keep the peace between Great Britain and Germany, it is our belief that their origin must be found in the highest authority in the German Empire, whom we believe, in spite of petty signs of spitefulness exhibited since the war broke out, to have been sincerely and honestly working in favour of European peace, against obstacles little dreamt of by our countrymen. But certain signs are not wanting that, in the lower ranks of the German hierarchy, war with this country had been decided ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... determined by actual experience. It was never really put in force for war with the United States began in two weeks and the constitution must stand as the expression of the ideas of a certain group of educated natives rather than as the working formula for the actual conduct of the political life of a nation. One proof of this is the fact that not until June 8, 1899, were Aguinaldo's decrees upon the registration of marriages and upon civil marriage, dated June 20,1898, revoked, and the provisions ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester


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