Usually means: Effort applied to achieve goals.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. work: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -work, work, work: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. work: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. work: Collins English Dictionary
  5. work: Vocabulary.com
  6. Work, work, work, work: Wordnik
  7. -work, work: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Work, -work, work: Wiktionary
  9. work: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. work: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. work: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. work: Dictionary.com
  13. work (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. work: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Work (band), The Work (film), The Work, The work, Work (Charlie Chaplin film), Work (Ciara Song), Work (Ciara song), Work (EP), Work (Fifth Harmony song), Work (Holy Ghost! album), Work (Iggy Azalea song), Work (JME song), Work (Jars of Clay song), Work (Jimmy Eat World song), Work (Jme song), Work (Kelly Rowland song), Work (Rihanna song), Work (The Saturdays song), Work (Thermodynamics), Work (album), Work (book), Work (disambiguation), Work (electrical), Work (film), Work (painting), Work (physics), Work (professional wrestling), Work (project management), Work (song), Work (thermodynamics), Work, Work, .work: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Work: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. work: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. work: Rhymezone
  19. work: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. work: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Work, (to avoid doing any): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. Work: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. work: Free Dictionary
  24. work: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. work: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Work: World Wide Words
  27. work: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. work (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Work (disambiguation), Work (song), work: Legal dictionary
  3. work: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. work: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Work (arts), Work (disambiguation), Work (fine arts), Work (song), work: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Work: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Work (disambiguation), Work (song), work: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WORK: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. work: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Work: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. work: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. work, work: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Work: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Work: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. work: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Employment.
noun:  Labour, occupation, job.
noun:  The place where one is employed.
noun:  (by extension) One's employer.
noun:  (dated) A factory; a works.
noun:  (uncountable) Effort.
noun:  Effort expended on a particular task.
noun:  Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
noun:  Something on which effort is expended.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
noun:  Product; the result of effort.
noun:  (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
noun:  (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
noun:  (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
noun:  (countable) A fortification.
noun:  (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
noun:  (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
noun:  (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
verb:  (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
verb:  Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
verb:  Said of one's job title [with as].
verb:  Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
verb:  General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
verb:  (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
verb:  (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
verb:  (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.
verb:  To set into action.
verb:  To exhaust, by working.
verb:  To shape, form, or improve a material.
verb:  To provoke or excite; to influence.
verb:  To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
verb:  (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
verb:  To force to work.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty.
verb:  (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
verb:  (transitive) To embroider with thread.
verb:  (intransitive) To ferment.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to ferment.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
verb:  (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
noun:  A surname.

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