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workings N pl

1. workings (mine):

workings
вы́работки f мн

2. workings (mechanism):

workings
механи́зм m

working ADJ

2. working (pertaining to work):

working
рабо́чий

hard-working [ˌhɑ:dˈwɜ:kɪŋ, Am ˌhɑ:rdˈwɜ:r-] ADJ

working class N

working-class ADJ

working day N

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An important cargo was coal all from the many mines and opencast workings.
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A reviewer said the authors had achieved their very laudable aim of showing the workings of the various social experiments as they are without exaggeration of concealment.
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Though the inner-workings of humor are not agreed upon, humor appeals may work by creating incongruities in the mind.
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Launched in 1913, her hull and inner workings were nearing twenty years old.
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Although she was never a nun, she was endowed with wide powers over the internal workings of the monastery.
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A reference book is in preparation about all producers, works and workings on a studio.
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His talent was not so much to make innovations, but rather to publicise and explain the workings of the various systems.
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That, however, is where any resemblance to the grimy inner-workings of machinery ends and the resemblance to your grandmother's delicate chinaware begins.
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During the 1980s, the schools' special status had begun to chafe within the workings of the school board.
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Everyone here has a metal covering that hides all their inner workings.
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