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▸ 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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employment,
workplace,
job,
piece of work,
airt,
study,
ACT,
address,
body of work,
operate,
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