workings

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ

The internal mechanism of some device or system. / The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.

日本語の意味

機械やシステムの内部構造、仕組み / 鉱山や採石場などにおける採掘中または採掘済みの部分

英語の意味

The internal mechanism of some device or system. / The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.

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She studied the clock's workings to understand how it kept time.

彼女は時計の内部の仕組みを調べて、どのように時間を刻んでいるのかを理解した。

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意味（1）

The internal mechanism of some device or system.

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.

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意味（2）

The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.

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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