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Working generally refers to employment. It may also refer to:

Arts and media

Engineering and technology

  • 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

Other uses

  • Holbrook Working (1895–1985), statistician and economist
  • Working the system, using rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order to manipulate the system
  • A working, in the sense of a prolonged series of occult rituals

See also