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  Working \Work"ing\,
     a & n. from Work.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The word must cousin be to the working.  --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.
  
     Working class, the class of people who are engaged in
        manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support;
        laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  
     Working day. See under Day, n.
  
     Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a
        structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to
        be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either
        general or detail drawings.
  
     Working house, a house where work is performed; a
        workhouse.
  
     Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the
        effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
        [1913 Webster]

  Working \Work"ing\,
     a & n. from Work.
  
           The word must cousin be to the working.  --Chaucer.
  
     Working beam. See Beam, n. 10.
  
     Working class, the class of people who are engaged in
        manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support;
        laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  
     Working day. See under Day, n.
  
     Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a
        structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to
        be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either
        general or detail drawings.
  
     Working house, a house where work is performed; a
        workhouse.
  
     Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the
        effect required; the point where the useful work is done.

  working class
       n : a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
           for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
           field" [syn: labor, labour, proletariat]

  working class
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en working-class)
     n.
     The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as
  opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or
  others.

  working class
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en working-class)
     n.
     The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as
  opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or
  others.

  working class
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en working-class)
     n.
     The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as
  opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or
  others.

  working class
     a.
     (alternative spelling of en working-class)
     n.
     The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as
  opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or
  others.

  working class
     Englanti n.
     työväenluokka

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/ 
  proletariát

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/
  Arbeiterklasse 
   see: be working-class
  

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/ 
  työväenluokka
  social class doing physical work

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/
  radnička klasa

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/
  munkásosztály

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/ 
  労働者階級
  social class doing physical work

  working class /wəːkiŋklɑːs/
  arbeidersklasse, werkende stand

  working class /wˈɜːkɪŋ klˈas/ 
  arbetarklass
  social class doing physical work

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "working class":
     bourgeois, bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort,
     commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers,
     linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders,
     lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, middle-class,
     ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletarian,
     proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen,
     the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers,
     toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working people