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n. (context especially of machinery English) The state or condition of being operational or of functioning acceptably.
Usage examples of "working order".
Moving the sensor above his right hip he assured himself that the multifield packet imbedded there was in total working order.
All scientific surveys on Whirlygig had been completed many years earlier, but the dome facilities should still be in working order.
Her eyes widened as she became aware that not only were muscles remembering but also certain glands were in working order.
Cappie bleeped to inform her that her stabilizers were back in working order.
For that matter, I wasn't sure the thing was still in working order.
Having destroyed harvests, dismantled agricultural machinery, and disorganized shipping, they find it no easy matter to relieve the shortage of crops in one place by means of a superabundance in another, as would easily be done if the economic system were in normal working order.
Then, he left to make sure that the Crematorium was in good working order and that the Columbarium was swept free of desert dust.
A machine gun was mounted there, but he did not know if it was in working order.
They stowed the pistols inside their clothing, close to the skin where body heat would keep them in working order.
This whole cliff wall came down on it fifty thousand years ago, and when we dug it up it was still in working order.