working

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of work; doing a job or task.

   Leave him alone; he's working.

2. 2
   adj

   Functioning correctly; in operation.

   We finally have a working internet connection.

3. 3
   adj

   Good enough to use for now, but not yet final.

   This is just a working draft of the report.

Common collocations

• working mother Adjective + noun

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”).

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