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working on

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

Meaning of work on

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To apply mental or physical effort to (something) in order to shape, form, improve, investigate, solve it, etc.
    • John's in the studio working on the plans for the new house.
  2. (transitive) To exercise influence on someone.
    • Leave it to me. I'll try to work on the boss to give us the day off.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, on.
    • Do you work on Sundays?

Questions about working on

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

Words near working on in the dictionary

  1. working mass
  2. working masses
  3. working memories
  4. working memory
  5. working off
  6. working on
  7. working one's buns off
  8. working one's fingers to the bone
  9. working one's guts out
  10. working one's magic
  11. working one's passage

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