A surname.

(rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.

(informal, humorous) Used to point out the listener's laziness.

(aerospace) The total mass of the burnt fuel etc. ejected from a rocket to provide thrust.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female prostitute. / (rare) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see working, girl.

(politics) A majority big enough for the party or faction in power to carry through most of its legislative programme without the risk of parliamentary defeat.

The temporary name of a product or project (such as a film or video game), when under development; often changed when released.

(idiomatic) The technology of making products from leather.

present participle of hot work

An animal which is kept mainly to do work, such as a draft animal or a service animal, not mainly as a pet nor for its animal products.