working
actively engaged in paid work
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,256 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,549 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- actively engaged in paid work also: on the job the working populationthe ratio of working men to unemployed
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something the party has a working majority in the Housea working knowledge of Spanish
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work a working drafta working hypothesis
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing also: running, operative, functional in running (or working) ordera functional set of brakes
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity discussed the working draft of a peace treatythey need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked also: workings
working in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Father Vedder was working in the garden, when the procession came down the road.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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It's rather a new institution here in Tilford, but seems to be working finely.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Benches nearly empty; Votes passing in basketsful; prorogue next week; to-day, practically, last working time.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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He had stolen this secret of transformation and he knew he had disobeyed the law of Oz by working magic.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1
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Hamp Biscoe, it appears, was a hard working, thrifty farmer, who lived near England, Arkansas, upon a small farm with his family.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1