functioning

[functioning]

Performing or able to perform its regular function; "a functioning flashlight"

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Noun
process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane''s operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet''s performance conformed to high standards"

Adjective
performing or able to perform its regular function; "a functioning flashlight"


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Usage Examples

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

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Other Usage Examples

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

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