Word Finder - working

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(usually in the plural) Operation; action.

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Method of operation.

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The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

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Be sure to check your working.

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Fermentation.

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(of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.

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A place where work is carried on.

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the abandoned mine workings

She's working at the hospital to pay for her education.

But you haven't been working there all that long.

Not working as hard as you, that's for sure.

You knew little of what any other scientist was working on.

So yeah, if you told them to choose between working and not working, many would choose to relax.

It is as if each person has one hundred assistants working for him.

With Skype and similar products, you can even see the person you are working with.

That might be true, but there was no point in working at becoming a spendthrift simply because he had money.

If you take something worth a dollar, spend an hour working on it, and your employer sells it for three dollars, no way in the world can you ever make more than two dollars an hour.

Probably, but I wouldn't be working off that cake and ice cream, either.

He was working on the ranch, fifteen miles away.

I could not in one hundred lifetimes make a working electric lamp, even knowing what I know now.

He needs someone to look after his house while he's working the ranch.

You've been working for me for almost three months now and this is the first time I've ever seen you sick.

If we obtained this ten-thousand-fold increase simply by allowing specialization and dividing work up among people, then what astronomical gains will we achieve by outsourcing that work to robots capable of working with unimaginable precision at unimaginable speed?

I thought you needed to sleep longer because you were working so hard getting ready.

And as population rises, education rises, health rises, and wealth rises, more and more people will be working on these problems.

If you like having sore muscles at the end of a day or working a job that requires little of your mental capacity so you can contemplate Nietzsche, hey, more power to you.

By comparison, if a country has 99 percent of the people working in agriculture—if it is barely feeding itself, even with everyone working at that—then it is living at a subsistence level, the very definition of poverty.

The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round continued his work.

I pay you to take care of the house while I'm out working.

I've spent half my summer nights in that room working on my tests.

We're working to determine how large a part it represents.

She began working on her lap top vigorously.

He's been working with this guy, not knowing you slept with him.

They're working on her.

Finally things were working out for both of them.

This antibiotic seems to be working better than the previous one.

Yet someone had told him that she was working for Sarah.

Boys younger than Royce were working unsupervised.

Now that was a good example of her imagination working over time.

Locked herself in her room for days working on layette sets for the grand children Russie would never provide.

Hanging on to this place and working it like a cowboy.

She indicated a cultivated area not far from where she was working.

I don't want to end up working for the government.

For working quarters we secured a thirty year old building, recently vacated, on the beautiful main street of Keene.

Quinn took charge of our working accommodations.

We were regular working stiffs to the rest of the world.

Don't tell him I said so but you have to stop working him so hard.

Then he added with a smile in his voice, You two are working late together.

We're working on her self-confidence but it's still better than her mother's.

We tried not to look suspicious, a difficult task as we were used to working undisturbed.

We agreed on an allowance figure and she began working in earnest.

Howie and Quinn are working a session today, once Quinn's equipment gets there.

Have you and Quinn had any luck working together?

Willard picked up a toothpick and began working it.

When we were not working, we held hand constantly.

She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.

You quit working at the hospital?

I was working in the house all day and wanted to wear something cool.