work

Employment. Labour, occupation, job.

• My work involves a lot of travel.
• He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
• I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

Labour, occupation, job.

• My work involves a lot of travel.

The place where one is employed.

• He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

One's employer.

• I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

A factory; a works.

Effort. Effort expended on a particular task.

• Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
• We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
• We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

Effort expended on a particular task.

• Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.

Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

• We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
• We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

Something on which effort is expended.

• There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
• has had a lot of work done
• putting in work

Cosmetic surgery.

• has had a lot of work done

Prison gang violence.

• putting in work

A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

• Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.

A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.

Product; the result of effort. The result of a particular manner of production.

• There's a lot of guesswork involved.
• We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
• It is a work of art.

The result of a particular manner of production.

• There's a lot of guesswork involved.

Something produced using the specified material or tool.

• We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.

A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.

• It is a work of art.
• the poetic works of Alexander Pope

A fortification.

• William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.

To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

• He's working in a bar.
• I work in a national park.
• She works in the human resources department.

Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].

• I work in a national park.
• She works in the human resources department.
• He mostly works in logging but sometimes works in carpentry too.

Said of one's job title [with as].

• I work as a cleaner.

Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].

• She works for Microsoft.
• He works for the President.

General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].

• I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
• You work with computers, right?
• She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.

To be employed or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

• She works the night clubs.
• The salesman works the Midwest.

To be employed or operate in, through, or by means of.

• She's working the phones.

To be operative in a specified way. To behave in a certain way when handled

• This dough does not work easily.
• The soft metal works well.
• He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?

To behave in a certain way when handled

• This dough does not work easily.
• The soft metal works well.

To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

• He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
• He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.
• My plan didn't work.

To be appealing; to be approved of.

• The chef's steak frites just didn't work for me.
• That shirt doesn't work on her.

To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

To hurt; to ache.

To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

• I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.

To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen. To set into action.

• He worked the levers.
• The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
• He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

To set into action.

• He worked the levers.

To exhaust, by working.

• The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

To shape, form, or improve a material.

• He used pliers to work the wire into shape.