<adj.all> the working population the ratio of working men to unemployed a working mother robots can be on the job day and night
adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
<adj.all> the party has a working majority in the House a working knowledge of Spanish
adopted as a temporary basis for further work
<adj.all> a working draft a working hypothesis
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
<adj.all> in running (or working) order a functional set of brakes
serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
<adj.all> discussed the working draft of a peace treaty they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects
Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Worked} (w[^u]rkt), or {Wrought} (r[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Working}.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa['u]rkjan. [root]145. See {Work}, n.] 1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? --Shak.
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. --Ex. v. 18.
Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. --Sir J. Davies.
2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak.
3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. --Rom. viii. 28.
This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. --Locke.
She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. --Hawthorne.
4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. --Isa. xix. 9.
5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
Confused with working sands and rolling waves. --Addison.
6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. --Milton.
7. To ferment, as a liquid.
The working of beer when the barm is put in. --Bacon.
8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. --Grew.
{To work at}, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
{To work to windward} (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict.
Working \Work"ing\, a & n. from {Work}.
The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer.
{Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10.
{Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
{Working day}. See under {Day}, n.
{Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings.
{Working house}, a house where work is performed; a workhouse.
{Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
"We're still working on how to implement what the president said," Charles Kolb, deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said in an interview Monday.
Government party chairman Park Tae-jun told a news conference today that the issue of adopting a parliamentary system would be discussed by a 15-member working committee to be formed Wednesday.
Pittston workers in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky went on strike April 5 after working 18 months without a contract.
This practice is known in the industry as 'skin-to-skin' working. The report said the roof fall was caused by rock movement 'probably' triggered by 'the relatively high rate of advance of the working in the roadway'.
This practice is known in the industry as 'skin-to-skin' working. The report said the roof fall was caused by rock movement 'probably' triggered by 'the relatively high rate of advance of the working in the roadway'.
They plan to keep working for reforms, such as a free press and an end to widespread official corruption, regardless of whether Communist Party reformers win a power struggle with conservatives.
William Barnett, managing partner for Pennzoil's law firm, Baker & Botts, told The Associated Press none of the attorneys working on the case were aware of the payment.
Schwerner and Goodman, white civil rights volunteers from New York, and Chaney _ a black civil rights worker from nearby Meridian _ were killed while working on a voter registration drive.
Pitney Bowes Inc., a leading maker of business machines in Stamford, Conn., helped pioneer flexible working hours to accommodate working parents, allowing them to arrive early some days and leave early on others.
Pitney Bowes Inc., a leading maker of business machines in Stamford, Conn., helped pioneer flexible working hours to accommodate working parents, allowing them to arrive early some days and leave early on others.
"We are still working to see exactly how much money was involved, but it was many millions of dollars," Salazar said Wednesday.
Cupid has been working overtime in this southwestern Ohio town as Valentine's Day nears.
Shifting part of the burden to taxation would not bring the real costs of the system down. Mr Johann Eekhoff, state secretary in the economics ministry, argues that it is essential to extend working lives, and counter the trend to early retirement.
The disk-drive maker said the new financing replaces a $35 million credit line with BankAmerica Corp.'s Bank of America unit and will be used for additional working capital.
The announcement is the latest in a series of international ventures Mr. Maxwell has been working on recently.
For the past year, analysts have complained that Pfizer isn't working for its holders: The company refuses to divest its non-drug lines, as others in the industry have done, and Pfizer generally eschews stock buy-backs.
The presidents had already agreed to dismantle the Nicaraguan rebels at a summit in February in El Salvador, but a 90-day deadline for working out the details passed without notice.
Both it and the building societies emphasised that the decision did not reflect dissatisfaction with the working relationship.
He has degrees in sociology and law and has spent his life working as an official in the AD. In 1989 he was elected mayor of west Caracas, Venezuela's largest municipality.
But while Finance Minister Funaro has stressed that the government is committed to negotiation, it is equally committed to working without formal International Monetary Fund supervision of the economy.
It does not contain any proposals about shift-working or working hours.
The OSI accused Rudolph of working thousands of slave laborers to death building Nazi V-2 missiles during World War II.
Anti-war and anti-abortion activists are working together in some cases.
"With more single-parent households, more working mothers, and more children in poverty, school lunches are more important than ever," the Citizens' Commission on School Nutrition said.
"You can't assemble it gradually," he said. "You can't have the carburetor working while the starter is idle.
A Senate panel is examining evidence that several countries believed to be working on clandestine nuclear-weapons programs have been getting sensitive data from three Energy Department weapons laboratories.
She says she has talked to Labor Secretary Lynn Martin about working jointly on such an effort, and plans to talk to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander.
Bahlinger said the fast was designed to call attention to the peasants' appeals for land reform and better working and living conditions.
"But now, I get this message saying `Stop working for the Jews, stop working for the oppressors,' and I have to make up my mind," he told the Post. "Most of the others have gone.
"But now, I get this message saying `Stop working for the Jews, stop working for the oppressors,' and I have to make up my mind," he told the Post. "Most of the others have gone.