Working

Verb
working


 * Leave him alone, he's working.
 * Leave him alone, he's working.

Noun

 * 1)  The action of the verb work.

Adjective
working


 * 1) That is or are functioning.
 * a working ventilator
 * 1) That suffices but requires additional work.
 * a working copy of the script
 * 1) In paid employment.
 * working mothers
 * 1) Of or relating to employment.
 * the working week
 * 1) Enough to allow one to use something.
 * a working knowledge of computers

Synonyms

 * (functioning): functioning; up (mainly used of computers)
 * (that suffices but requires further work): draft, provisional, temporary
 * (in paid employment): employed, in employment
 * (of or relating to employment): work
 * (enough to allow one to use something): basic

Antonyms

 * (functioning): broken, broken-down, down (mainly used of computers)

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Finnish: työskentely, työnteko
 * French:


 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: wirkin

Adjective

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 * Finnish: ; (working class)


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Related terms

 * work