working papers


plural noun

legal papers often required for employment, as by an alien.
legal papers enabling a minor in the U.S. to work under certain conditions.

Origin of working papers

First recorded in 1925–30

British Dictionary definitions for working papers

working papers

pl n

papers or notes showing the intermediate stages of a proposal, solution, etc, arrived at or being worked on
legal documents that certain people in some countries must possess to be allowed to work