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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːkɪŋ/
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• General-American: /ˈwɝkɪŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)kɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: W ER1 K IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyrċende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).

Probably an Americanized form of German Werking.

From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyrċing (“working”), verbal noun of wyrċan (“to work”), equivalent to work + -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: աշխատող (ašxatoġ) — functioning
• Bulgarian: работещ (rabotešt) — functioning
• Danish: fungerende — functioning
• Esperanto: funkcianta — functioning
• Finnish: toimiva — functioning
• Georgian: მუშა (muša) — functioning
• Italian: funzionante — functioning
• Portuguese: funcional — functioning
• Romanian: funcțional — functioning
• Russian: работоспособный (rabotosposobnyj) — functioning
• Russian: рабо́чий (rabóčij) — functioning
• Swedish: fungerande — functioning
• Armenian: աշխատանքային (ašxatankʻayin) — suffices but requires additional work
• Bulgarian: работен (raboten) — suffices but requires additional work
• Finnish: työ- — suffices but requires additional work
• Finnish: keskeneräinen — suffices but requires additional work
• Polish: roboczy — suffices but requires additional work
• Russian: рабочий (rabočij) — suffices but requires additional work
• Russian: рабочая (rabočaja) — suffices but requires additional work
• Russian: рабочее (rabočeje) — suffices but requires additional work
• Russian: рабочие (rabočije) — suffices but requires additional work
• Spanish: bosquejado — suffices but requires additional work
• Spanish: esbozado — suffices but requires additional work
• Armenian: աշխատող (ašxatoġ) — in paid employment
• Bulgarian: работещ (rabotešt) — in paid employment
• Danish: erhvervsaktiv — in paid employment
• Finnish: työssäkäyvä — in paid employment
• Finnish: työtätekevä — in paid employment
• Norwegian Bokmål: yrkesaktiv — in paid employment
• Norwegian Nynorsk: yrkesaktiv — in paid employment
• Russian: работающий (rabotajuščij) — in paid employment
• Russian: работающая (rabotajuščaja) — in paid employment
• Russian: работающее (rabotajuščeje) — in paid employment
• Russian: работающие (rabotajuščije) — in paid employment
• Armenian: աշխատանքային (ašxatankʻayin) — of or relating to employment
• Bulgarian: работнически (rabotničeski) — of or relating to employment
• Finnish: työ- — of or relating to employment
• Italian: lavorativo — of or relating to employment
• Polish: roboczy — of or relating to employment
• Finnish: riittävä — enough to allow one to use something
• Bulgarian: действие (dejstvie) — operation; action
• Bulgarian: функциониране (funkcionirane) — operation; action
• Finnish: työ — operation; action
• Finnish: työskenteleminen — operation; action
• Finnish: työn tekeminen — operation; action
• Finnish: toimiminen — operation; action
• Portuguese: serviço — operation; action
• Russian: действие (dejstvije) — operation; action
• Russian: функционирование (funkcionirovanije) — operation; action
• Bulgarian: действие (dejstvie) — method of operation
• Bulgarian: опериране (operirane) — method of operation
• Bulgarian: обработка (obrabotka) — method of operation
• Finnish: toimintatapa — method of operation
• Finnish: työskentelytapa — method of operation
• French: fonctionnement — method of operation
• German: Ansatz — method of operation
• Portuguese: funcionamento — method of operation
• Russian: действие (dejstvije) — method of operation
• Russian: оперирование (operirovanije) — method of operation
• Russian: обработка (obrabotka) — method of operation
• Russian: способ (sposob) — method of operation
• Bulgarian: ферментация (fermentacija) — fermentation
• Finnish: käyminen — fermentation
• Russian: ферментация (fermentacija) — fermentation
• Finnish: rehevöityminen — becoming full of a vegetable substance