Working

Word WORKING
Character 7
Hyphenation work ing
Pronunciations /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Working"

What do we mean by working?

Performing work. adjective

Operating or functioning as required. adjective

Having a paying job; employed. adjective

Spent at work. adjective

Taken while continuing to work. adjective

Sufficient to allow action. adjective

Adequate for practical use. adjective

Serving as a basis or guide for further work. adjective

The manner in which something operates or functions. noun

The parts of a mine or quarry that have been or are being excavated. noun

In forestry, the harvesting of the final yield under a working plan. noun

Nautical, the condition of moving slightly or changing form under the strain of rolling: said of a vessel or any of its structural parts. See work, v. i., 9. noun

Action; operation: as, the workings of fancy. noun

Method of operation; doing. noun

Fermentation: as, the working of yeast. noun

Plural The parts of a mine, quarry, or openwork in which, or near which, mining or quarrying is actually being carried on. noun

The process which goes on in water when it blossoms. See work, v. i., 8. noun

(usually in the plural) Operation; action.

Method of operation.

The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

Fermentation.

(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.

A place where work is carried on.

A term to describe the tedious and boring indentured servitude that most people are forced to endure to get money. Generally, not a pleasant experience. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of EA Games. Urban Dictionary

A form of the word work, to perform duties or labor, (sometimes used as opposite of broken, or as synonym for functioning*) Urban Dictionary

It's like the first slice on a loaf of bread....nobody wants it. If you receive the work, you will definitely be fucked up after because you aint experienced anything like it before. Urban Dictionary

Doing something you hate in a place you hate with people you grow to hate for the majority of your day for the majority of your life. Urban Dictionary

The deceitful act of making oneself appear busy during office hours in return for payment. Urban Dictionary

"Work it" usually means, "strut your stuff," show off your assets, make some physical attribute (figure, walk, style of dress, etc.) to "work" for you to make you attractive. While not proven or confirmed, the expression may have originated among "working girls," i.e. prostitutes/street walkers, who would make a sultry walk etc. "work" for them to attract business. If it did have that connotation, it has been lost with time, and now usually is applied more innocently. Urban Dictionary

Like prison but without perks such as recreational breaks, a library, and drugs. Urban Dictionary

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises. Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system. Urban Dictionary

A place where people have to go everyday to get paid. Also known as "hell". Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Working

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The word "working" in example sentences

“The editors figured, We're all working really hard, so let's put in a word that means ‘working really hard.' ❋ Unknown (2005)

“But, ” he added, his voice trembling with indignation, “while I have been contriving and working that my father may have some peace of mind before he dies, —working for the respectability of our family, —you have done all you can to destroy both. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The entering of all these particulars in the log-book is termed _keeping the dead reckoning_, and the working out of the calculations just referred to is called _working up the days work_. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The term working through was originally used by Freud to describe the continuing application of analytic work to overcome resistances persisting after the initial interpretation of repressed instinctual impulses. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

The other thing keep in mind when you use the term working capital is that at principle working capital is really receivables and our growth in receivables right now is to a large degree because of higher revenues, probably concurrency but be that it may.

Mubarak said he would serve out the rest of his term working to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" and carry out amendments to rules on presidential elections. ❋ The Huffington Post/AP (2011)

In a half-way concession to hundreds of thousands of protesters, Mubarak said in Egypt that he would serve out the rest of his term working to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" and new rules on presidential elections. ❋ By MATTHEW LEE (2011)

Somber but firm - without an air of defeat - he said he would serve out the rest of his term working "to accomplish the necessary steps for the peaceful transfer of power." ❋ By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI (2011)

Fairbairn earned his moniker working as a cop in the 1920s and 1930s on the Shanghai waterfront. ❋ Gary Kamiya (2010)

Especially since we've decided everyone who isn't totally rich is middle class and have lost the term working class and working poor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The president has nothing left, and is going to have to spend the rest of his term working the refs to try to avoid impeachment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He did not use the term working man, and did not say a word to suggest any difference between their lives and his own. ❋ Charles Monroe Sheldon (1901)

With regard to our working people, in the ordinary sense of the term working, the study of Physics would, I imagine, be profitable, not only as a means of intellectual culture, but also as a moral influence to woo them from pursuits which now degrade them. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

He said he would serve out the rest of his term working "to accomplish the necessary steps for the peaceful transfer of power." ❋ Unknown (2011)

"No, I can't [come to] [the party] tonight. I'm [working late]." ❋ KonaKenny (2008)

This [game] is working! ❋ Stealth Pyros (2008)

*the watch is [not broken] it is working fine, [Jon] is [working hard], ❋ Notyper (2008)

[Sam] said he wanted the work, so I gave him the [cooking] of [a life] time. ❋ TurnM3Up (2019)

we're not born to [spend] our lives [at work], [fuck this shit] ❋ GreyAndBoring (2011)

I'd love to [help with] that important [task], but I've [got some] other work I need to do. ❋ The Gonzo Lecture (2010)

Damn, you [looking] [hot]! [Work it], girl! ❋ David305 (2014)

Dave discussing his [options] to Mike; Dave ' I need a change, work is really getting to me' Mike ' Imagine a life with no [bills], no [debt], no commute to work, no stress' Dave ' Prison sounds like a better option' ❋ MJwrites (2017)

[Oh damn] I have WORK, I better go [get some] [WINE] and BEER ❋ British Bitch (2010)

[I don't want to] [go to work] [today]! ❋ Www.flamepillar.com (2003)

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