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working back

working back is the present participle and gerund of work back.

Meaning of work back

Verb

work back (third-person singular simple present works back, present participle working back, simple past and past participle worked back)

  1. (Australia, idiomatic, intransitive) to work overtime; to make up time off by working overtime; to work beyond a specific shift.

Questions about working back

What is working back the present participle and gerund of?
Working back is the present participle and gerund of work back.

Words near working back in the dictionary

  1. working animal
  2. working animals
  3. working around
  4. working at
  5. working away
  6. working back
  7. working backward
  8. working beam
  9. working beams
  10. working bee
  11. working bees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working back (page history and authors); work back (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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