はたらく

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はたらく – see the following entry.
働く
to work at a job, to labour
to work properly, to operate, to function; to carry out one's function, to be effective, to come into play
(transitive) to perpetrate or commit a crime
(grammar) to conjugate; to inflect; to decline
(This term, はたらく (hataraku), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)