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trip workings

trip workings is the plural of trip working.

Meaning of trip working

Noun

trip working (countable and uncountable, plural trip workings)

  1. (UK, uncountable) The operation of short-distance freight trains, e.g. between goods yards.
    • The provision of the new yard permitted closure of four existing installations, between which there was a great deal of trip working.1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 267
  2. (countable) A freight train involved in such operation.

Questions about trip workings

What is trip workings the plural of?
Trip workings is the plural of trip working.

Words near trip workings in the dictionary

  1. trip traps
  2. trip up
  3. trip wire
  4. trip wires
  5. trip working
  6. trip workings
  7. trip-hammer
  8. trip-hammers
  9. trip-hop
  10. trip-sit
  11. trip-sitter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trip workings (page history and authors); trip working (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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