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workings

/wur-king/US // ˈwɜr kɪŋ //UK // (ˈwɜːkɪŋ) //

运作,工作,工作场所,运作情况

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that works.
    • : operation; action: the involuted workings of his mind.
    • : the process of shaping a material: The working of clay is easy when it's damp.
    • : the act of manufacturing or building a thing.
    • : Usually workings. a part of a mine, quarry, or the like, in which work is carried on.
    • : the process of fermenting, as of yeasts.
    • : a slow advance involving exertion.
    • : disturbed or twisting motions: The working of his limbs revealed the disease.
    • : repeated movement or strain tending to loosen a structural assembly or part.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that works.
    • : doing some form of work or labor, especially manual, mechanical, or industrial work, as for a living: a working person.
    • : operating; producing effects, results, etc.
    • : pertaining to, connected with, or used in operating or working.
    • : serving to permit or facilitate continued work: a working model; a working majority.
    • : adequate for usual or customary needs: a working knowledge of Spanish.
    • : large enough for working or being worked: a working sample.
    • : done, taken, etc., while conducting or discussing business: a working lunch.
    • : Also work. shaped and planed as a reference for further shaping and planing.

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Examples

  • A July working paper out of the National Bureau of Economic Research reported substantial learning gains among participants in 96 programs lasting 10 weeks to a year, with mostly low, often 1-to-1, student-tutor ratios.

  • The 8th District takes in South Boston, a historically working-class and Irish American community.

  • Publishers can’t predict how much longer the peaks will last, especially since plenty of remote working and home decor purchases — monitors, treadmills, desks — are one-time purchases.

  • Reports have criticized unsafe working conditions in Amazon warehouses and some workers in Minneapolis even went on strike on Prime Day last year.

  • Long-entrenched views on such things as remote working and digitization have changed.

  • 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.