n. a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

adj. adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish"

adj. in full operation; "a going concern"

adj. actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night"

adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

adj. readily applicable or practical

adj. put into practice or put to use; "applied physics"

adj. designed for or adapted to a function or use; "functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical"; "functional architecture"

adj. concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"

adj. usable for a specific purpose; "an operable plan"; "a practicable solution"

adj. intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration; "serviceable low-heeled shoes";

adj. dealing only with concrete facts

adj. being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

adj. full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city"

adj. at the highest level of activity: "for the first time in years the factory was in full swing"

adj. ready for business; "the stores are open"

adj. (employed)

adj. having services engaged for a fee; "hired hands"; "a hired gun"

adj. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"

adj. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

adj. not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital"