I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/working lunch (=a lunch during which you also do business)
▪ She was having a business lunch with a customer.
a working breakfast (=at which you talk about business)
▪ She suggested we meet at 8.30 for a working breakfast.
a working partnership
▪ Theirs is one of the most fruitful working partnerships in modern science.
a working relationship (=a relationship appropriate for people who work together)
▪ She’s a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship.
a working/learning environment
▪ Most people prefer a quiet working environment.
of working age
▪ 55 percent of the people are of working age.
remote working
set up/establish a working group (to do sth)
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
shift work/working (=working shifts)
▪ Does the job involve shift work?
the working poor (=poor people who have jobs, rather than unemployed people)
▪ These tax-cut proposals are targeted at the working poor.
the working/lower class
▪ At this time most of the working class was very poor.
working capital
working class
▪ Marx wrote about the political struggles of the working class.
working closely
▪ The successful applicant will be working closely with our international staff.
working conditions
▪ An office must be able to provide safe working conditions.
working feverishly
▪ Congress is working feverishly to pass the bill.
working for peanuts
▪ I’m tired of working for peanuts.
working girl
working group
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
working model (=one with parts which move)
▪ a working model of a steam engine
working nine to five
▪ She didn’t like working nine to five.
working papers
working party
working prototype
▪ a working prototype of the new car
Working Tax Credit
working together
▪ We’ve very much enjoyed working together.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
▪ Among men of working age, 78 percent were in employment with 63 percent working full time and 2 percent part time.
▪ This means that there are more old people needing special help and proportionately fewer people of working age to provide for them.
▪ About 63 percent. of women of working age with children are economically active.
▪ As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
▪ Third, a new disability employment credit for people of working age will serve to recognise a partial capacity for employment.
▪ In 1988, 62% of married couples of working age were both in work.
▪ First, whereas the population of working age increased by 1m between 1981 and 1986, today it is barely growing.
▪ The fact that many people of working age face constant moves to other areas may also complicate the decision.
capital
▪ It wants the cash to repay debt and for capital expenditures and for working capital.
▪ He is currently preparing a plan to unlock more working capital by the New Year.
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ They do not wish to provide further working capital by means of borrowing or it may be imprudent to do so.
▪ With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000.
▪ This includes a fee of Pounds 12,500, a three-month lease on a van and some working capital.
▪ Net proceeds will be used to repay short and long-term debt, refinance long term debt and for working capital.
class
▪ Founded to give political expression to a working class based on industry, what is their role in a post-industrial world?
▪ Though he notes occasional heroism, his general verdict on the working classes is unfavourable.
▪ The white working class had been weakened by their dependence on these leaders.
▪ The comparative affluence of working class youth in the sixties allowed the building-up of large groups of mobile supporters.
▪ He may be a working class boy at heart but his lifestyle has been transformed - and he doesn't mind at all.
▪ This study aims to examine the role of Protestant working class youth culture in transmitting loyalist ethnic and political identity.
▪ These later attenders tended to be women who were younger, single, working class.
▪ Now we can quantify this: 0.482 more service class than working class children attend these schools.
day
▪ On such working days the facilities will be available from 08.30 to 17.45.
▪ The initial period lasts for 20 working days.
▪ In 1979, 29 million working days were lost in strikes.
▪ To ensure that different days of the week are covered, the measurements will be done on every twentieth working day.
▪ More than a million and half vehicles enter or leave central London every working day.
▪ The third working day after we started again after the break.
▪ Most queries should normally be answered within five working days.
▪ Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools.
days
▪ On such working days the facilities will be available from 08.30 to 17.45.
▪ A report from the Health and Safety Commission says that 23.2 million working days were lost to work-related injuries.
▪ In 1979, 29 million working days were lost in strikes.
▪ The average turnround for a passport application in the last year has been six working days.
▪ And re-made it was - nearly 200 linear metres of Decorum Wilton - completed in four working days.
▪ Read in studio Every year, thirty million working days are lost through back problems.
▪ Orders received by noon delivered in two working days.
▪ He will acknowledge receipt of your reference within 5 working days.
environment
▪ Physical match includes the design of the whole work place and working environment.
▪ The working environment is conducive to the achievement of excellence and the work is intellectually challenging.
▪ Muriel's attitude to others in a working environment gives little credit to anyone else for practical intelligence or reliability.
▪ A better working environment than the diocesan office, Julia thought, as she surveyed it.
▪ To maintain a healthy working environment for all employees.
▪ With Ian, his inner sensitivity has a negative effect mainly in his working environment.
▪ We offer a friendly working environment in Central London, 5 weeks annual holiday, private healthcare and additional benefits.
▪ The working environment is excellent and our project teams enjoy superb facilities, which include sophisticated instrumentation and computing equipment.
group
▪ The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.
▪ Some local political parties are also appointing working groups to develop election policies.
▪ A working group will discuss particular issues arising from collaboration.
▪ The court ruled that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to such subcommittee working groups.
▪ Your replies will help decide the final recommendations of the working group, to be made this Autumn.
▪ The working group stresses, however, that these factors are not sufficient to offset the warming resulting from the greenhouse effect.
▪ One possible outcome of this would be a working group to look at producing guidelines for certification.
▪ A working group, with representatives of all the republics concerned, was established to prepare a first draft.
knowledge
▪ It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions.
▪ This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers.
▪ Lambert was himself a skilled administrator, with a working knowledge of sanitary reform.
▪ A good working knowledge of the Building Regulations requirements is therefore necessary.
▪ In this case, having a working knowledge of the types of microcomputer available will be important.
▪ The teams must include at least one person with no working knowledge of education.
▪ Ideally, you will have a degree in engineering or science with a working knowledge of heat transfer mechanisms.
life
▪ The Community Social Charter declares that workers must be able to have access to training throughout their working lives.
▪ Some of them had very long working lives and a few survive.
▪ Repeatedly the feeling was expressed that nobody could change the quality of their working lives except possibly higher management.
▪ Managers may spend as much as fifty percent of their working lives engaged in meetings of various types.
▪ Landscape, of course, was a constant theme throughout John Marin's long working life.
▪ Of course, you may just be curious about how other people spend their working lives.
▪ Discontinuous employment was an integral part of these women's working lives.
man
▪ Meanwhile, he was making friends of working men and trade unionists, and devoting himself to educational work.
▪ The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament.
▪ It insisted on a total abstention from not only spirits but beer, the staple drink of the working man.
▪ Police earnings in the 1920s were substantial by comparison with most other occupations to which a working man could aspire.
▪ Elsewhere working women and the wives of working men lacked access to this elementary form of private social security.
▪ The average working man spends roughly half of his life working.
▪ Mercier, by contrast, gives us the working man, drawn with almost Hogarthian candour.
method
▪ Those familiar with the work and working methods of Frank Auerbach may find all this oddly familiar.
▪ But too often the system's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best.
▪ And he knew that Hargreave would never have agreed with his working methods.
▪ Their work allowed them to identify working methods and the characteristics of particular ateliers.
▪ In addition referral procedures and working methods exhibit considerable variation.
▪ They should, however, be seen as interactive working methods.
▪ Rather cuts should come from examination of working methods and materials and introducing more cost-effective measures.
order
▪ I keep some of the toys on display in working order for my grandchildren to play with.
▪ These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
▪ But after a sixty-five thousand pound refurbishment, the bells have been restored to full working order.
▪ The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
▪ Male speaker It's awful having a set of bells there which are almost in working order but can't be used.
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ The Governor says it's essential the prison is in full working order right from the start.
▪ The clock was restored to its original condition in full working order in 1956, after a lapse of seventy-two years.
party
▪ The working party outlines the extent, character and location of job creation in services.
▪ A working party was appointed in 1974 to produce one.
▪ Any high drama that remains is found deep in technical working party country.
▪ At the conclusion of the meeting, little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties.
▪ In the light of discussion, a working party was set up to explore these options.
▪ Thus the working party is arguing that information skills are not merely incidental to the curriculum but central to it.
▪ There was some curtailment of prisoners' activities, a reduction in the number of outside working parties and of educational classes.
▪ The ceremony was performed by Coun Islwyn Morris, chairman of the council's environment working party.
people
▪ The landowners lived centrally, and around them, in concentric circles as it were, lived the working people.
▪ It is difficult, looking back, to form a balanced view of the condition of all these working people.
▪ For the first time, in many cases, working people were able to purchase more than basic necessities.
▪ At the same time many working people have had their belts tightened for them as factories closed and unions accepted cutbacks.
▪ The growth of public sector unionism raises starkly the issue of alliances between workers as producers and working people as consumers.
▪ For years, an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun.
▪ It was said that the working people of London had no need to bolt their doors at any time.
▪ Leaving out poor and working people doesn't seem right.
population
▪ One in seven of the working population is unemployed: 3¼ million people.
▪ In 1979, the assisted areas covered almost half the country by working population.
▪ They now cover 35 percent. of the working population and are carefully targeted on the areas most in need.
▪ The town has a working population of around 700, so the closures will put one in ten on the dole.
▪ It was also attributable to the increasing demands and expectations of the newly enfranchised working population.
▪ Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 percent of its working population employed within its boundary.
▪ The prize, however, was that the whole working population would have a pension of their own.
▪ In 1989, 3 percent more of the working population of the North were unemployed than in 1978.
position
▪ The earlier a pupil is able to find and keep to a comfortable and efficient working position, the better.
▪ You will gradually bring these needles back to working position to form the curve lower edge above the hem.
▪ Repeat from * until the remaining stitches are in working position.
▪ Transfer all stitches to the front bed, leave back bed needles in working position. 2.
▪ Many machines have tuck brushes or rubber wheels beneath the sinker plate; these have to be moved into working position.
▪ Put the ribber to the half-pitch position and bring some needles on each bed to the working position.
▪ When in working position, the brushes should run just above the needles and immediately in front of the sinkers.
▪ The first of these rows will take needles back to working position.
practices
▪ This should mean more efficient working practices and savings in time and money.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Time and experience were needed to establish new working practices.
▪ New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
▪ We have again looked hard at our working practices and cost base and have made substantial changes.
▪ On visits to both bureaux, we felt that their working practices eliminate any reasonable possibility of this happening.
▪ Yet both professional footballers and cricketers were subjected to unreasonable restrictions and working practices.
▪ The factory is inefficient, its working practices and much of its machinery dated.
relationship
▪ It is these processes which provide the principles for staff management and enhance the quality of working relationships within the organisation.
▪ But it also required systems, operations, and business people to change skills, behaviors, and working relationships.
▪ We bring to our working relationships the same potential for disordered conduct as we bring to any other area of our lives.
▪ The information systems project will cause changes to the roles of employees and in working relationships.
▪ Although the personal attitudes of the protagonists are unknown, it is clear that their working relationship was one of cooperation.
▪ Are working relationships defined and public?
▪ Try as she might, her working relationship with Stephanie Marsa was strained to say the least.
▪ The assessment panels have contributed to a better working relationship between guidance staff and other members of staff.
time
▪ Sickness absence overall fell sharply last year by almost 0.5 percent of working time from the 1991 figure of 4.0 percent.
▪ I have also seen people for whom twenty-five minutes to a half hour were the best working times.
▪ Big, raw-boned farm hands, they looked to Grant as though they spent their working time wrestling bulls - and winning!.
▪ The most vulnerable areas of working time for me are those of contact with pupils and curriculum development.
▪ These calculations of working time are taken from the accounts of daily routine obtained in the interviews.
▪ Consequently consultation is only 8 percent of working time.
▪ It soon became apparent that the working time each week would be limited to about two hours.
▪ Therefore, we intend to repeal the Act when alternative regulations governing working times are in place.
week
▪ The country was on a 3-day working week and the mineworkers were solidly in favour of strike action in support of their pay claim.
▪ There were still loose ends in her working week so her sister Sarah took it upon herself to tie them up.
▪ The average working week in Oakley's sample was 77 hours, with a range from 48 to 105.
▪ Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week.
▪ It is to accommodate the six or seven-day working week.
▪ Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week.
▪ A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido, looking back.
woman
▪ A prime dilemma for all working women is that of overload, and how to deal with it.
▪ That suggests that we are doing quite well by working women.
▪ Olwen Hufton observes that outside domestic service single working women had difficulty surviving on their wages.
▪ Children were not the only dependents of working women.
▪ For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women.
▪ Will my hon. Friend consider allowing working women in such circumstances a greater disregard?
▪ Elsewhere working women and the wives of working men lacked access to this elementary form of private social security.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in (good) working/running order
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above.
▪ To this day the milling machinery is in working order.
▪ Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
be working overtime
▪ Price's wit and sarcasm are working overtime in this production.
▪ He said engineers are working overtime to fix the problems.
▪ His brain was working overtime and he just stood there goggling.
▪ His brain was working overtime now.
▪ It looked as if his karma was working overtime.
▪ Meanwhile, aluminum manufacturers were working overtime to supply the armament industry.
▪ Soon after I left them, they were working overtime to fulfil a big order, when there was a breakdown.
▪ Their local maternity unit was working overtime.
▪ Then he announced gleefully that light bulb orders had jumped, suggesting that factories were working overtime.
working stiff
▪ He was rising in the world, a celebrated hijacker, and Charlie was a working stiff with money problems.
▪ Instead of working stiffs, we get craftsmen.
▪ My dad was a poor working stiff.
▪ They're ordinary working stiffs, doing their job.
▪ This was my first residence as a working stiff.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a working mother
▪ an ordinary working man
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At 87, he's the oldest working baker in Britain ... and an inspiration to his customers and colleagues.
▪ At the time of going to press the working party's document is still awaited.
▪ I keep some of the toys on display in working order for my grandchildren to play with.
▪ Most significant was an increase in working capital and an increase in labour inputs consequent on the technological changes introduced.
▪ On the other hand, don't let your working folder become cluttered up with papers you are not using.
▪ The Household of Faith was Brideshead's working title.
▪ The picture of the working population of West Ham emerging from these data is one dominated by unskilled male manual workers.
II.nounPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in (good) working/running order
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above.
▪ To this day the milling machinery is in working order.
▪ Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
working stiff
▪ He was rising in the world, a celebrated hijacker, and Charlie was a working stiff with money problems.
▪ Instead of working stiffs, we get craftsmen.
▪ My dad was a poor working stiff.
▪ They're ordinary working stiffs, doing their job.
▪ This was my first residence as a working stiff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In some cases metals are actually strengthened by this process, which is known as cold working.
▪ Your serious working on filming music goes back to the 1960s?