working bee

noun

NZ a voluntary group doing a job for charity

Words nearby working bee

workforce, workhorse, workhouse, working, working asset, working bee, working capital, working class, working day, working dog, working drawing

Example sentences from the Web for working bee

  • Accustomed to sip the honey, it never strikes us that perhaps its product involves in some cases the life of the working-bee.

    Curiosities of Civilization |Andrew Wynter

  • It is structurally a degraded form of Working-bee, and its position socially is unenviable.

    Our Common Insects |Alpheus Spring Packard

  • She was evidently at work, and was probably the mistress, since few in that "working-bee" village kept maids.

    A Bird-Lover in the West |Olive Thorne Miller