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Synonyms for working

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Synonyms for working

in action or full operation

the way in which a machine or other thing performs or functions

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Synonyms for working

a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

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actively engaged in paid work

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adequate for practical use

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adopted as a temporary basis for further work

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity

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Over a six-year period (1996-2001), about one in ten working-age adults experienced at least one year of working poverty.
John Burnett, Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (London, 1976); Malcolm Brown, Tommy Goes to War (London, 1978).
Office of Personnel Management's Web site, www.telework.gov, houses a wealth of information, including telework resources and laws pertaining to working from home.
For most CFOs, the greatest challenge with respect to working capital management is the need to understand and influence factors that are out of their direct control, in order to obtain a complete picture of the company's needs.
Eli Lilly became known for work/life initiatives under Tobias, and in 2004 the pharmaceutical maker placed in the top 10 on Working Mother's annual list of best workplaces for mothers.
Additionally, these agencies are increasingly recognizing the merits of working directly with the public to garner wider support for their missions.
The attorneys who participate on TaxTalk agree that if the IRS and FTB interpretation is that children working outside of the above three areas must have work permits, then it's probably best to get the work permits.
Oxygen consumption during the first and second work bouts was the same, indicating that subjects were working at the same intensity for both work bouts.
We preferred the developmental model of career assessment to the matching model of career assessment because the latter does not address some factors, such as the client's career maturity and readiness for career decision making (Osborne, Brown, Niles, & Miner, 1997), which are crucial constructs to consider when working with people with a serious mental illness.
What if I have to change meds, or the reeds stop working? How will the stress of working affect my health?
First, even before I began working with my counselor, the two of us discussed the type of work I wanted to do, and he helped me to focus my education accordingly.
As we also argue, there are three important areas where social work in the Arab world has been enhanced: conflict resolution, collaboration with religion and with traditional healing, and strategies for working with families.
It was not uncommon to find him working on Saturday or Sunday.
Mattioli and Laguna chose different and perhaps opposite strategies: Mattioli, working as an indoor scholar, relied on textual sources, mainly using reports from other scholars to know plants; Laguna, instead, personally practi ced pharmacology throughout Europe, collecting data from a wide range of sources, not only texts but also--if not above all--practitioners of any kind, from healers to witches.