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working

Definition for working

adjective as in active, occupied

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Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.

He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.

The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.

Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.

Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.

The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.

All possibility of a general increase of wages depended on the relation of available capital to the numbers of the working men.

With hands nervously working within her muff, she suddenly missed the handkerchief which she had placed there.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to working, such as: alive, busy, employed, engaged, functioning, and running.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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