work
IPA: wˈɝk
noun
- (uncountable) Employment.
- labour, occupation, job.
- The place where one is employed.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- (dated) A factory; a works.
- (uncountable) Effort.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- Product; the result of effort.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;
- (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To set into action.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
- (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
- (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
- (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
- (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- (transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (transitive) To cause to work.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
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Examples of "work" in Sentences
- He works as a welder in a company.
- She works at a company that victuals workers.
- The assistant manager works hard in this company.
- The company is known for its unremunerative work.
- The people did not work with the company anymore.
- The man worked on a joint collaboration with the company.
- The construction work was tendered out as a turnkey contract.
- At the start of the film, Malcolm is working for the tram company.
- Elgar conducted a recording of the work for the Gramophone Company.
- When the network failed to work, Blockbuster pulled out of the contract.
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