Usually means: Operating effectively to achieve purpose.
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  1. functioning: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. functioning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. functioning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Functioning, functioning: Wordnik
  5. functioning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. functioning: Wiktionary
  7. functioning: Dictionary.com
  8. functioning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. functioning: Rhymezone
  10. functioning: Free Dictionary
  11. functioning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. functioning: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. functioning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. functioning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. functioning: Medical dictionary

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  1. Functioning: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Functional, working.
adjective:  (euphemistic, of a person) Mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.
noun:  Action of the verb function.
noun:  Manner by which something functions; the workings.

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