WORKING GIRL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does working girl mean? 

• WORKING GIRL (noun)
  The noun WORKING GIRL has 2 senses:

1. a young woman who is employed

2. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

  Familiarity information: WORKING GIRL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKING GIRL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young woman who is employed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("working girl" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl

Hypernyms ("working girl" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "working girl"):

call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)

camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)

comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)

demimondaine (a female prostitute)

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)

white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)