Working

Working may refer to:

  • Working (musical), a 1978 musical
  • Working (TV series), a situation comedy
  • Working (book), a book by Studs Terkel
  • Working!!, a manga by Karino Takatsu
  • Holbrook Working (1895–1985), statistician and economist
  • Working the system, using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome
  • Cold working, the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation
  • Hot working, processes where metals are plastically deformed above their recrystallization temperature
  • Multiple working, having more than one locomotive hauling a train under the control of one driver
  • Live-line working, the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised
  • Single-line working, using one train track out of two

Famous quotes containing the word working:

    “Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘tis the only thing in this world that lasts.... ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for.”
    —Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)

    “The generation of women before us who rushed to fill the corporate ranks altered our expectations of what working motherhood could be, tempered our ambition, and exploded the supermom myth many of us held dear.”
    —Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)

    “Hello, Lucy, had a busy night? We’ve been working hard too.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)