working

• (s) actively engaged in paid work
  • the working population
  • the ratio of working men to unemployed
  • a working mother
  • robots can be on the job day and night
  on the job,
• (s) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
  • the party has a working majority in the House
  • a working knowledge of Spanish
• (s) adopted as a temporary basis for further work
  • a working draft
  • a working hypothesis
• (s) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
  • in running (or working) order
  • a functional set of brakes
  operative, functional, running,
• (s) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
  • discussed the working draft of a peace treaty
  • they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects

Nouns

• (n) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked workings,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity