Usually means: Activities or efforts yielding desired results.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word works:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. works: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. works, the works: Merriam-Webster
  3. works, the works: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. works, the works: Collins English Dictionary
  5. works: Vocabulary.com
  6. Work's, Works, work's, works, works: Wordnik
  7. works, the works: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Works, works: Wiktionary
  9. works, the works: Dictionary.com
  10. works: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. The Works (American TV program), The Works (Bananarama album), The Works (Echo & the Bunnymen album), The Works (Faith No More album), The Works (Jon Stevens album), The Works (Nik Kershaw album), The Works (Queen album), The Works (Saga album), The Works (Spiers and Boden album), The Works (TV network), The Works (The Corrs album), The Works (The Wildhearts album), The Works (Wildhearts album), The Works (film), The Works (mixed-use development), The Works (retailer), The Works, Works (Pink Floyd album), Works (album), Works: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. works: Rhymezone
  13. works: FreeDictionary.org
  14. works: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. The Works: The Word Detective
  16. works: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. works: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. works: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Works (arts), works: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Works (disambiguation), works: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WORKS: Acronym Finder
  2. works, the works: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. works: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. works: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Works: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. the Works: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Works: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (works)

▸ noun:  A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.
▸ noun:  A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.
▸ noun:  (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
▸ noun:  (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
▸ noun:  (slang) A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.

Similar:
plant, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, kit and caboodle, deeds, full treatment, industrial plant, kit and boodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, more...

Opposite:
fails, malfunctions, breaks, collapses, ceases

Types:
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, essay, journalism, history, more...

Phrases:
the works, works in, public works, works on, collected works, more...

Adjectives:
other, public, good, many, literary, several, important, major, complete, later, earlier

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Similar:
plant, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, kit and caboodle, deeds, full treatment, industrial plant, kit and boodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, more...

Opposite:
fails, malfunctions, breaks, collapses, ceases

Types:
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, essay, journalism, history, more...

Phrases:
the works, works in, public works, works on, collected works, Good works, works at, literary works, works out, complete works, works cited, iron works, reference works, water works, works through, art works, more...

Adjectives:
other, public, good, many, literary, several, important, major, complete, later, earlier

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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