[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

workings
     n 1: the internal mechanism of a device syn: works
     2: a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked syn: working
see also:
works working 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "workings":
   abysm, abyss, act, acting, action, activism, activity, agency,
   bank, behavior, chasm, clockworks, coal mine, colliery, conduct,
   dig, diggings, direction, doing, drive train, driving, employment,
   excavation, execution, exercise, function, functioning, gear,
   gold mine, gulf, handling, innards, machinery, management,
   manipulation, mechanism, mine, motion, movement, movements,
   occupation, open cut, opencast, operancy, operation, operations,
   performance, performing, pit, play, power train, practice, praxis,
   quarry, responsibility, running, servomechanism, shaft, steering,
   swing, watchworks, well, wheels, wheels within wheels, work,
   working, works

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