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Word entry · 7 letters

working

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"On the job"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted giknorwStarts with WEnds with G1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Operating, employed, functioning, or doing a job.

Word origin

From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

Used in a sentence

  • Be sure to check your working.
  • the abandoned mine workings
  • From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.

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