Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • At work; in or into a state of working or action.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Archaic or Colloq. At work; in action.

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  • adverb obsolete At work; in action.

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Examples

  • I have volunteered to take part in aworking group on the new structure, arguing that as it will not involve me I can bring an unbiased view to the table.

    Dear Jeremy 2010

  • Well he just jumped from +1 to +3 in Ras with leaners, that would contradict the claim that the attacks are aworking.

    Poll: Plurality Says Obama Unprepared For Presidency 2009

  • Following his elevation to the House of Lords,made aworking peerentitledBaron Drayson, of Kensington...

    Archive 2008-11-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • If you are aworking woman, are you worried about finding a job that pays your billsandprovides benefits?

    Tell Us What You Think: The 2008 Working Woman Survey 2008

  • Most of the workers were churchgoers and it was strategic to use church "hymns" but we put in lyrics, which, have aworking class message.

    Union Songs in South Africa 2007

  • London: the roaring waves, the whistling of the salt winds, the loneliness of the bitter North Sea -- these set his imagination aworking on the old legend of the mariner doomed to sail the ocean until the Day of Judgment.

    Wagner John F. Runciman 1891

  • "At last, I hear the cranes aworking on the quay."

    Roden's Corner Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • You are 'cused of the robb'ry and the murder, and you have denied it in the court; but chile, the lie-yers are aworking day and night fur to hang you, and little is made of much, on your side, and much is spun out of little, on theirn.

    At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

  • Quaint, naive, half-grotesque it was in conception, yet the truth of all drama was there actively exhibited, and all casuistic pleading of excuses of some sort, even of justification for the witch (that it was her nature; heredity in her aworking, etc., etc.) would have not only been out of place, but hotly resented by that audience.

    Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871

  • Replied the smith, "Hearing and obeying," and fell aworking to keep his word; and when they were ready the Moorman paid him what price he required; then taking them he carried them to the Khan and set them in a basket.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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