Workings

Definitions

1. The internal mechanism of some device or system.
   plural, plural-only
2. The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
   plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take⟳ over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.”

“The main platforms are unusually far apart, because the two centre tracks were lifted after the East Coast Main Line was diverted in 1983 to avoid⟳ now defunct new coal workings.”

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