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workings

workings is the plural of working.

Noun

workings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The internal mechanism of some device or system.
    • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their...2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
  2. (plural, plural-only) The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
    • The main platforms are unusually far apart, because the two centre tracks were lifted after the East Coast Main Line was diverted in 1983 to avoid now defunct new coal workings.2022 September 21, “Lifts at Selby by next summer”, in RAIL, number 966, page 21

Meaning of working

Noun

working (countable and uncountable, plural workings)

  1. (plural-normally) Operation; action.
  2. Method of operation.
  3. The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
    • Be sure to check your working.
  4. Fermentation.
  5. Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
  6. A place where work is carried on.
    • the abandoned mine workings

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Proper noun capitalized: Workings

Workings

  1. (plural) plural of Working

Words formed from workings

Phrases with workings

Questions about workings

What does workings mean?
Workings means the internal mechanism of some device or system.
What is workings the plural of?
Workings is the plural of working.
What part of speech is workings?
Workings can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near workings in the dictionary

  1. workingman's hotel
  2. workingman's hotels
  3. workingmen
  4. workingmen's hotel
  5. workingmen's hotels
  6. workings
  7. Workington
  8. workingwoman
  9. workingwomen
  10. workish
  11. workiversaries

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