working

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝkɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪŋ Hyphenation: work‧ing === Etymology 1 === From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung. ==== Noun ==== working (countable and uncountable, plural workings) (usually in the plural) Operation; action. Method of operation. (arithmetic) 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. (countable) A train movement. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work +‎ -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”). ==== Verb ==== working present participle and gerund of work ==== Adjective ==== working (not comparable) That is or are functioning. That suffices but requires additional work; provisional. In paid employment. Of or relating to employment. Enough to allow one to use something. Used in real life; practical. (obsolete) Efficacious. ===== 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 ===== (antonym(s) of “functioning”):: broken, broken-down, down (antonym(s) of “mainly used of computers”): ===== Hyponyms ===== known-working ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Related terms === work === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “working”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “working”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.