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functioning

adjective as in active

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noun as in operation

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A SEC spokesperson told MarketWatch that the agency is currently operating in accordance with its plan for functioning during a government shutdown.

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“We still have no functioning hospitals, no homes, no minimum conditions for human life,” he said.

NIS confirmed it expects foreign payment cards to "cease functioning", with petrol stations accepting only Serbia's domestic card or cash.

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Venezuela is an economic basket case with a smaller population than Texas and virtually no functioning civil society.

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Other workplace issues frame the union fight ahead, such as a properly functioning air conditioning system coming off the heels of a sweltering summer when people crowded the store to peruse its products.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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