working rule

1. 1.

   a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done

   Synonymsworking principle

   Broaderrule

Questions about working rule

What does working rule mean?

working rule means "a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done".

What is another word for working rule?

Close synonyms include working principle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is working rule a common word?

working rule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.