Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
elaboration
working out | developing in intricate and painstaking detail |
| working dog | any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs |
metro
tube underground
subway system
subway | an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city), in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' |
working
workings | a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked |
| working memory | memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
samizdat
underground press | a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature |
working papers
work papers
work permit | a legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countries |
| working papers | records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project, the auditor was required to produce his working papers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
labor
labour
working class
proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
underground
resistance | a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force |
working group
working party | a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved, the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks |
c prostitute
cocotte
whore
harlot
bawd
tart
cyprian fancy woman working girl sporting lady
lady of pleasure
woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
| working girl | a young woman who is employed |
workman
workingman
working man
working person | an employee who performs manual or industrial labor |
| capital working capital | assets available for use in the production of further assets |
workday
working day | the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage, they work an -hour day |
| workday working day work day | a day on which work is done |
propertyless
wage-earning
working-class
blue-collar | of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers, party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw |
| working | serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity, discussed the working draft of a peace treaty, they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects |
working(a)
on the job(p) | actively engaged in paid work, the working population, the ratio of working men to unemployed, a working mother, robots can be on the job day and night |
running(a)
operative
functional
working(a) | (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing, in running (or working) order, a functional set of brakes |
clandestine
cloak-and-dagger
hole-and-corner(a)
hugger-mugger
hush-hush
secret surreptitious
undercover
underground | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods, clandestine intelligence operations, cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines, hole-and-corner intrigue, secret missions, a secret agent, secret sales of arms, surreptitious mobilization of troops, an undercover investigation, underground resistance |
| working(a) | adopted as a temporary basis for further work, a working draft, a working hypothesis |
| working | adequate for practical use, especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something, the party has a working majority in the House, a working knowledge of Spanish |
belowground
underground | under the level of the ground, belowground storage areas, underground caverns |
wage-earning
working-clas | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries, working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor |
| underground | beneath the surface of the earth, water flowing underground |
| underground | in or into hiding or secret operation, the organization was driven underground |