working
adjective
1. actively engaged in paid work
- the working population
- the ratio of working men to unemployed
- a working mother
Similar word(s): employed
2. adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- the party has a working majority in the House
- a working knowledge of Spanish
Similar word(s): practical
3. adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- a working draft
- a working hypothesis
Similar word(s): impermanent, temporary
4. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- in running (or working) order
Similar word(s): functioning, functional, operative, running
5. serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- discussed the working draft of a peace treaty
- they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects
Similar word(s): operative
Sentences with working as an adjective:
- a working ventilator
- a working copy of the script
- working mothers
- the working week
- a working knowledge of computers
noun
1. a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
Similar word(s): workings
Definition categories: man–made, excavation
verb
1. present participle of work
- Leave him alone; he's working.