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working

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Adjective, Noun
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work=ing
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23 in 22 verses (in OT : 12 in 12 verses) (in NT : 11 in 10 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

workinga & n. 
     a & n. from Work.  [1913 Webster]
    "The word must cousin be to the working."  [1913 Webster]
Working beam. See Beam, n. 10. -- Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. -- Working day. See under Day, n. -- Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. -- Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. -- Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

working, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 engaged in work, esp. in manual or industrial labour.
2 functioning or able to function.
--n.
1 the activity of work.
2 the act or manner of functioning of a thing.
3 a a mine or quarry. b the part of this in which work is being or has been done (a disused working).

Idiom
working capital the capital actually used in a business. working class the class of people who are employed for wages, esp. in manual or industrial work. working-class adj. of the working class. working day esp. Brit.
1 a workday.
2 the part of the day devoted to work. working drawing a drawing to scale, serving as a guide for construction or manufacture. working hours hours normally devoted to work. working hypothesis a hypothesis used as a basis for action. working knowledge knowledge adequate to work with. working lunch etc. a meal at which business is conducted. working order the condition in which a machine works (satisfactorily or as specified).
working-out
1 the calculation of results.
2 the elaboration of details. working party a group of people appointed to study a particular problem or advise on some question.

THESAURUS

working

accomplishment, acetification, acidification, acidulation, act, acting, action, active, activism, activity, agency, alive, alkalization, answer, ascertainment, at it, at work, banausic, barmy, behavior, behavioral, breadwinning, businesslike, busy, carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, clearing up, commercial, conduct, contour plowing, cracking, cultivating, cultivation, culture, decipherment, decoding, denouement, determination, diastatic, direction, disentanglement, doing, dressing, driving, drudging, dynamic, electrolysis, employed, employment, end, end result, engaged, enzymic, execution, exercise, explanation, exploitation, fallowing, ferment, fermentation, fermenting, finding, finding-out, full of business, function, functional, functioning, furrowing, going, going on, grinding, grubbing, handling, hard at it, hard at work, hardworking, harrowing, hoeing, hydrogenation, in exercise, in force, in hand, in harness, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, interpretation, isomerism, issue, laboring, leavening, listing, live, management, manipulation, materialistic, metamerism, metamerization, moneymaking, movements, nitration, occupation, occupied, on duty, on foot, on the fire, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, ongoing, operancy, operating, operation, operational, operations, operative, outcome, oxidation, oxidization, pegging, performance, performing, phosphatization, play, plodding, plowing, plugging, polymerism, polymerization, position isomerism, practical, practice, practicing, praxis, prosaic, pruning, raising, realistic, reason, reduction, resolution, resolving, responsibility, result, riddling, running, saturization, serving, slaving, slogging, solution, solving, sorting out, steering, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, swing, thinning, tied up, tilling, toiling, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, using, utilitarian, utilization, weeding, work, workaday, workday, working-out, workings, yeasty

ROGET THESAURUS

working

Activity

N activity, briskness, liveliness, animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy, snap, vim, nimbleness, agility, smartness, quickness, velocity, alacrity, promptitude, despatch, dispatch, expedition, haste, punctuality, eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement, earnestness, intentness, abandon, vigor, devotion, exertion, industry, assiduity, assiduousness, sedulity, laboriousness, drudgery, painstaking, diligence, perseverance, indefatigation, habits of business, vigilance, wakefulness, sleeplessness, restlessness, insomnia, pervigilium, insomnium, racketing, movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness, flurry, officiousness, dabbling, meddling, interference, interposition, intermeddling, tampering with, intrigue, press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire, great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action, housewife, busy bee, new brooms, sharp fellow, sharp blade, devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank, hummer, hustler, live man, rustler, active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee, lively, animated, vivacious, alive, alive and kicking, frisky, spirited, stirring, nimble, nimble as a squirrel, agile, light-footed, nimble-footed, featly, tripping, quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart, fast, quick as a lamplighter, expeditious, awake, broad awake, go-ahead, live wide-awake, forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest, resolute, industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking, intent, indefatigable, unwearied, unsleeping, never tired, plodding, hard-working, businesslike, workaday, bustling, restless, restless as a hyena, fussy, fidgety, pottering, busy, busy as hen with one chicken, working, at work, on duty, in harness, up in arms, on one's legs, at call, up and doing, up and stirring, busy, occupied, hard at work, hard at it, up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger, meddling, meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious, intrigant, astir, stirring, agoing, afoot, on foot, in full swing, eventful, on the alert, actively, with life and spirit, with might and main &c, with haste, with wings, full tilt, in mediis rebus, Int, be alive, look alive, look sharp!, move on, push on!, keep moving!, go ahead!, stir your stumps!, age quod agis!, jaldi!, karo!, step lively!, carpe diem, seize the day, nulla dies sine linea, nec mora nec requies, the plot thickens, No sooner said than done, veni vidi vici, catch a weasel asleep, abends wird der Faule fleissig, dictum ac factum, schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Al, hard work in youth means soft rest in age, the busy hum of men.

Workshop

N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.

Agency

N agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.


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