working storage

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noun Computers.

the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.

the part of memory in which such data is stored.

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Origin of working storage

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby working storage

working memory, working order, working papers, working party, workingperson, working storage, working substance, working week, workingwoman, work-in-progress, work it

How to use working storage in a sentence

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
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Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
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I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
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He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
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The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.
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Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.
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Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
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The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.
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All possibility of a general increase of wages depended on the relation of available capital to the numbers of the working men.
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With hands nervously working within her muff, she suddenly missed the handkerchief which she had placed there.
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