working

About 134.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Operation; action.
2. noun Method of operation.
3. noun The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

   Be sure to check your working.

4. noun Fermentation.
5. noun (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
6. noun A place where work is carried on.

   the abandoned mine workings

7. noun A train movement.
8. verb present participle and gerund of work

   Leave him alone; he’s working.

Similar words

operative functioning functional employed practical impermanent temporary running on the job operation

Often followed by

with in on class for of at conditions out

Word family

workings