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say it: WUR-king
working is an adjective and noun meaning "actively engaged in paid work". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
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”
adopted as a temporary basis for further work
“a working draft”
“a working hypothesis”
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
“in running (or working) order”
“a functional set of brakes”
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”
a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for working come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.