The working classes

Definition

working /'wɜ:kÇŋ/ adj ၁။ (က) အလုပ္ရိွေသာ။ အလုပ္ လုပ္ေသာ။ The meeting must be held at a time convenient for working mothers. ❍ the working population of the country (ie the people in it that work). (ခ) ကာယလုပ္သား။ a working men's club ❍ My father was just a simple working man. ၂။ အလုပ္ႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ အလုပ္ႏွင့္ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ ေသာ။ My working hours are (from) 9 to 5. ❍ She was still dressed in her working clothes. ❍ The union has negotiated a 35-hour working week. ❍ She had spent all her working life in the factory. ❍ Working conditions in the industry have improved greatly. ❍ a working breakfast/ lunch . စားရင္းေသာက္ရင္း အလုပ္ကိစၥ ေျပာဆိုေသာ စားဝိုင္း။ ၃။ အားေကာင္းေသာ။ အလုပ္ လုပ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a working model of a steam engine တကယ္ေမာင္း၍ ရေသာ ေရေႏြးေငြ႕စက္ ပံုစံငယ္။ ❍ The government has a working majority (ie one that is sufficient to allow it to govern). ၄။ လက္ေတြ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ လက္ေတြ႕က် ေသာ။ a working hypothesis/ theory ❍ That's only the book's working title — we'll probably call it something else eventually. ❍ She has a working knowledge of French. n ၁။ [C] သတၱဳတြင္း။ We went exploring in some disused tin workings. ၂။ workings [pl] ~ s (of sth) လုပ္ေဆာင္ပံု။ the workings of the human mind ❍ It is impossible to understand the workings of such a huge organization. ❏ working capital n [U] လုပ္ငန္း မတည္ေငြ အရင္းအႏီွး။ ❏ the working class n [sing] (also the working classes [pl]) အလုပ္သမား လူတန္းစား။ represent the interests of the working class ❍ working-class attitudes/ families/ origins ❍ She comes from a working-class background. Compare MIDDLE CLASS ❏ working day n (က) = WORKDAY (ခ) တစ္ေန႔ အလုပ္ခ်ိန္။ The union is campaigning for a shorter working day. ❏ working party n (ဌာနဆိုင္ရာက ခန္႔ထားေသာ) စိစစ္ အႀကံျပဳေရးအဖြဲ႕။ set up a working party to look into the matter.

Examples

1. Sessions run in the evenings to allow working parents to attend.
2. Compare your own situation with that of other working women.
3. How will these changes affect the ordinary working man?
4. A good working relationship between producers and distributors
5. After the meeting there will be a working lunch.
6. [working conditions/environment] : The strikers are demanding better working conditions.
7. In the grounds of the priory is a working watermill.
8. Applicants should have a working knowledge of Greek.
9. This working document could become the draft of an eventual peace agreement.
10. I gave him a revised working drawing showing greater detail.