Definitions for workings

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workings work·ing

Spelling: [wur-king]

IPA: /ˈwɜr kɪŋ/

Workings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in workings (giknorsw).

Definitions for workings

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that works.
2. operation; action:
3. the process of shaping a material:
4. the act of manufacturing or building a thing.
5. Usually, workings. a part of a mine, quarry, or the like, in which work is carried on.
6. the process of fermenting, as of yeasts.
7. a slow advance involving exertion.
8. disturbed or twisting motions:
9. repeated movement or strain tending to loosen a structural assembly or part.
10. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
11. productive or operative activity.
12. employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood:
13. one's place of employment:
14. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking:
15. materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work.
16. the result of exertion, labor, or activity; a deed or performance.
17. a product of exertion, labor, or activity:
18. Often, works. an engineering structure, as a building or bridge.
19. a building, wall, trench, or the like, constructed or made as a means of fortification.
20. works. (used with a singular or plural verb) a place or establishment for manufacturing (often used in combination): the working parts of a machine: Theology. righteous deeds.
21. Physics. force times the distance through which it acts; specifically, the transference of energy equal to the product of the component of a force that acts in the direction of the motion of the point of application of the force and the distance through which the point of application moves.
22. the works, Informal. everything; all related items or matters: harsh or cruel treatment:

Idioms

1. at work, working, as at one's job: in action or operation:
2. gum up the works, Slang. to spoil something, as through blundering or stupidity:
3. in the works, in preparation or being planned:
4. make short work of, to finish or dispose of quickly:
5. out of work, unemployed; jobless:
6. shoot the works, Slang. to spend all one's resources:
7. work it, Informal. to arrange something: to show off one’s body or clothing to best effect, often through movement or posing:

adjective

1. that works.
2. doing some form of work or labor, especially manual, mechanical, or industrial work, as for a living:
3. operating; producing effects, results, etc.
4. pertaining to, connected with, or used in operating or working.
5. serving to permit or facilitate continued work:
6. adequate for usual or customary needs:
7. large enough for working or being worked:
8. done, taken, etc., while conducting or discussing business:
9. Also, work. (of a face or edge, as of a timber or a metal casting) shaped and planed as a reference for further shaping and planing.
10. of, for, or concerning work:
11. shaped and planed; working.

Verb phrases

1. work in/into, to bring or put in; add, merge, or blend: to arrange a time or employment for:
2. work off, to lose or dispose of, as by exercise or labor: to pay or fulfill by working:
3. work on/upon, to exercise influence on; persuade; affect:
4. work out, to bring about by work, effort, or action. to solve, as a problem. to arrive at by or as by calculation. to pay (a debt) by working instead of paying money. to exhaust, as a mine. to issue in a result. to evolve; elaborate. to amount to (a total or specified figure); add up (to): to prove effective or successful: to practice, exercise, or train, especially in order to become proficient in an athletic sport:
5. work over, to study or examine thoroughly: Informal. to beat unsparingly, especially in order to obtain something or out of revenge:
6. work through, to deal with successfully; come to terms with:
7. work up, to move or stir the feelings; excite. to prepare; elaborate: to increase in efficiency or skill:
8. work up to, rise to a higher position; advance:

verb (used with object)

1. to use or manage (an apparatus, contrivance, etc.):
2. to bring about (any result) by or as by work or effort:
3. to manipulate or treat by labor:
4. to put into effective operation.
5. to operate (a mine, farm, etc.) for productive purposes:
6. to carry on operations in (a district or region).
7. to make, fashion, or execute by work.
8. to achieve or win by work or effort:
9. to keep (a person, a horse, etc.) at work:
10. to cause a strong emotion in:
11. to influence or persuade, especially insidiously:
12. Informal. to exploit (someone or something) to one's advantage:
13. to make or decorate by needlework or embroidery:
14. to cause fermentation in.

verb (used without object)

1. to do work; labor.
2. to be employed, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood:
3. to be in operation, as a machine:
4. to act or operate effectively:
5. to attain a specified condition, as by repeated movement:
6. to have an effect or influence, as on a person or on the mind or feelings of a person.
7. to move in agitation, as the features under strong emotion.
8. to make way with effort or under stress:
9. Nautical. to give slightly at the joints, as a vessel under strain at sea.
10. Machinery. to move improperly, as from defective fitting of parts or from wear.
11. to undergo treatment by labor in a given way:
12. to ferment, as a liquid.

Origin of workings

First recorded in 1250-1300, working is from the Middle English word werking. See work, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for workings

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

In these solitary tours he was busy and happy, working and playing.

And working men may keep the wall, and jostle prince and peer.

But now that I've been working for almost a year I find I'd rather keep on working.

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

Henry is now working ten hours a day out to the packinghouse.

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

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

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

By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.