functioning
运作,职能,运转,运作情况
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- : performing a specified action or activity; working; operating: My son has only one functioning kidney.
- : able to cope with everyday life, as at home or at work: a functioning alcoholic with a successful career; functioning diabetics.See also high-functioning.
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Examples
A confusing patchwork of last-minute orders imposed since October—somehow both too restrictive to allow regular functioning of the economy and not restrictive enough to effectively limit the virus’s spread—have failed to improve the situation.
Such activities are essential to the functioning of a free democracy.
In normal times, I would maintain that this is the healthy functioning of the market’s “invisible hand.”
Data from the advisory group suggests that vaccinating essential workers maximizes the overall functioning of society and promotes access to the vaccine for communities of color, which have been most affected by the pandemic.
She described herself as “high functioning” and said she was always in special education classes in elementary and high school.
Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts.
It is entirely possible for some of these mechanisms to be functioning while others have ceased.
There are conditions where the heart and many other organs are functioning relatively well, but the brain is very ill.
Thailand has had a lousy track record with functioning democracy for many decades.
Once his one-track mind got to on a certain objective it seldom digressed.