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Definitions of work:

noun: activity directed toward making or doing something
Example: "She checked several points needing further work"
noun: a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
Example: "It is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"
noun: (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
Example: "Work equals force times distance"
noun: the occupation for which you are paid
Example: "A lot of people are out of work"
noun: the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
Example: "Picasso's work can be divided into periods"
noun: a place where work is done
Example: "He arrived at work early today"
noun: applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
Example: "Mastering a second language requires a lot of work"
verb: provoke or excite
Example: "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy"
verb: proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
Example: "Work your way through every problem or task"
verb: cause to work
Example: "He is working his servants hard"
verb: be employed
Example: "Is your husband working again?"
verb: exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
Example: "I will work hard to improve my grades"
verb: cause to operate or function
Example: "This pilot works the controls"
verb: operate in or through
Example: "Work the phones"
verb: have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
Example: "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"
verb: operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
Example: "She works the night clubs"
verb: behave in a certain way when handled
Example: "This dough does not work easily"
verb: arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
Example: "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
verb: move into or onto
Example: "Work the raisins into the dough"
verb: shape, form, or improve a material
Example: "Work stone into tools"
verb: gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
Example: "The political candidate worked the crowds"
verb: move in an agitated manner
Example: "His fingers worked with tension"
verb: proceed along a path
Example: "Work one's way through the crowd"
verb: cause to undergo fermentation
Example: "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
verb: give a work-out to
Example: "My personal trainer works me hard"
verb: use or manipulate to one's advantage
Example: "She knows how to work the system"
verb: make uniform
Example: "Work the clay until it is soft"
verb: perform as expected when applied
Example: "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
verb: cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
Example: "I cannot work a miracle"
verb: have and exert influence or effect
Example: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"
verb: make something, usually for a specific function
Example: "Work the metal into a sword"
verb: prepare for crops
Example: "Work the soil"
verb: go sour or spoil
Example: "The wine worked"
verb: find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
Example: "Work out your problems with the boss"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8682)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to work: (1575 results)
Synonyms:
act, address, airt, be, body of work, bring, cover, crop, cultivate, deal, do work, employment, exercise, figure out, follow, function, go, handle, job, knead, lick, make for, make one's way, oeuvre, operate, piece of work, play, plow, process, put to work, puzzle out, run, solve, study, treat, work on, work one's way, workplace, wreak

More general:
acquisition, activity, broach, business, come about, come through, create, displace, end product, energy, gear up, geographical point, geographic point, go across, go on, go through, hap, happen, initiate, learning, line, line of work, make, move, occupation, occur, output, pass, pass off, prepare, proceed, product, production, ready, reason, set, set up, succeed, take place, transform, transmute, understand

More specific:
aid, answer, apply, appointment, assist, attention, bank, beaver away, beaver, beehive, berth, blackleg, booking, boondoggle, break one's back, break, brokerage house, brokerage, buckle down, bushwhack, busy, busywork, caning, care, carpenter, carry out, central, chef-d'oeuvre, claw, click, coaching job, coaching, collaborate, colliery, come home, computerize, consult, cooperate, cooper, cox, creamery, cut, dawn, dig, discourse, discuss, double, do, drill site, drudge, duty, engagement, exchange, exploit, fag, fall into place, farm, fill, fishery, forge, free-lance, functioning, gasworks, get across, get through, get together, glassworks, grind, guess, handcraft, handicraft, handiwork, handwork, housekeeping, housewifery, housework, implement, infer, intern, investigating, investigation, ironing, ironworks, ironwork, join forces, jostle, knuckle down, laboratory, labor, labour, lab, lacework, lacquerware, laundry, leatherwork, logging, loose end, lumberyard, make over, make-work, man, masterpiece, mess around, metalwork, minister, missionary work, mission, moil, monkey around, monkey, moonlight, muck around, navigation, nightwork, occupy, office, openwork, operation, overcrop, overcultivate, oyster bank, oyster bed, oyster park, page, paperwork, peg away, penetrate, performance, piecework, piscary, pit, place, plug away, polishing, position, post, potter, practice, practise, procedure, project, proving ground, publication, public service, putter, rack, rat, resolve, retread, riddle, roll, ropewalk, rope yard, roundhouse, run through, sailing, salt mine, scab, scant, science lab, seafaring, serve, services, service, shining, shipyard, shop floor, shop, silverwork, sink in, situation, skimp, skipper, slave, slog, slot, smithy, social service, spadework, specialize, spiel, spot, strike, studio, subbing, substituting, sweatshop, take, talk about, tannery, task, telephone exchange, tending, test bed, till, timework, tinker, toil, tool, travail, treadmill, undertaking, unfinished business, utilize, vet, volunteer, wait, warm up, washing, wash, waterworks, welfare work, wicker, wickerwork, woodwork, work at, work in progress, workload, workpiece, workshop, work through

Often used in the same context:
a, accomplishment, action, anna, answers, anything, aphrodisiac, appear, apple, appreciate, art, artist, artwork, assignment, awake, award, bark, bills, bit, bite, block, bones, book, books, bore, boring, boss, bother, box, boxes, bra, breakfast, build, bus, cake, called, calm, camp, car, career, cash, cause, chilling, choose, chore, chores, circle, city, class, classes, cleaning, clockwork, coke, college, commission, company, compare, computer, confess, congratulations, cook, country, course, court, crash, creation, daze, dedication, deed, deeds, degree, desk, dinner, dirt, disease, dogs, done, early, easier, easy, eat, education, effect, effort, efforts, eleven, email, employee, ending, english, experience, fax, finder, first, flavor, flight, food, french, friday, galore, gifts, god, grade, graduation, great, guilt, hall, ham, hard, hard work, hat, heads, heavy, help, helps, hill, hire, homework, home work, honor, hour, hours, house, hurt, hustle, idea, idiot, ill, image, improve, indeed, interesting, internet, is, jack, jazz, jobs, joe, joint, josh, key, ladies, last, late, later, law, lazy, leaf, learn, lines, load, long, lunch, machine, mail, mark, married, master, math, matters, meant, morning, motion, mouth, needed, needs, net, network, noble, nose, note, nurse, nuts, odd, off, online, order, ordinary, paper, parent, park, pencil, people, phone, pin, pizza, plane, plans, plant, played, player, pleasure, poem, poems, poetry, pork, praise, pray, projects, quick, rap, rate, reading, relax, robe, running, s, safe, safely, safety, sale, sandwich, sane, says, school, schoolwork, science, search, season, servant, shout, shower, simple, sister, six, size, sizes, skill, solution, something, somewhere, sports, stairs, station, stress, strive, student, stuff, success, sword, talent, teach, teacher, teamwork, teeth, test, tests, text, thanks, things, though, tired, tonight, travel, trip, truck, trying, tv, type, understanding, union, use, vacation, valentine, violence, visit, voyage, walking, wants, watch, web, weekend, went, whiskey, whistle, win, winner, wire, women, wood, wor, worked, worker, working, works, worries, worse, writing, wrok, yard, year

Appears in the definition of:
., abbreviator, abridgement, abridger, abridgment, absenteeism, absentee rate, accustomed, acer saccharum, acknowledgement, active, actuarial, adaptation, adeline virginia stephen woolf, administer, administrate, a. e. kennelly, afraid, agonist, al-asifa, al-fatah, alger, alice hamilton, along, alsatian, amazing, amedeo avogadro, analecta, analects, annals, apparatus, application, apprentice, archimedes, architecture, arduous, argument, army engineer, arnold gesell, arnold lucius gesell, arthur edwin kennelly, arthur rimbaud, artisan's lien, art object, assistant foreman, asthenopia, asynergia, asynergy, attack, attend, attend to, attitude, authority, author's name, autotelism, average, avogadro, baby-sit, babysitting, baby sitting, backseat, bad, baddie, badly, bailey, balance, baldly, beast of burden, beat generation, beatniks, beats, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop, behind, belabor, belabour, bench clamp, benefit album, benjamin shahn, ben shahn, best-known, biosafety level, biz, blue-collar, blue law, board of trade unit, boatswain, bodywork, boilers suit, boilersuit, boringly, bo's'n, bos'n, bosun, bo'sun, botchy, bowed downp, brainchild, brakes, brake system, breast drill, brush, building block, bulk, bum, bunk off, burden, burdened, busman's holiday, buy, call, camillo golgi, canary whitewood, capsule, carefulness, carnot cycle, carnot's ideal cycle, cartage, carter, carting, casebook, caste, castration, casually, catch up with, chantey, chanty, chapter, character, child welfare agency, child welfare service, civilian clothing, civilian dress, civilian garb, claim, clean room, clerical, clinic, clinician, clock in, clock off, clock on, clock out, clock-watching, closet, coating, coffee break, colleague, commit, commute, commuter, commuter traffic, comparably, compendium, complainingly, compose, composition, computer user, condensation, conflict, congenial, congress of racial equality, conscientious, continue, contrast, contributor, contrive, coordinator, copyright, copyrighted, core, correct, coursework, covering, co-worker, craft, craftsman, creative, creative person, credit, crewman, criticism, cross-index, cross-reference, crossroads, cunctator, curriculum vitae, cutter, cutting angle, cv, cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, dabble, david herbert lawrence, dawah, da'wah, daycare, day care, day care center, day nursery, day off, day shift, day watch, deconstruction, deconstructionism, definitive, deflate, deliverance, demoralized, demur, dennis gabor, denouement, department of local government, deployment, deserve, design, despise, develop, device, dewar, d. h. lawrence, diagram, dictator, diffidently, dingdong, diplomatic building, disability check, disability payment, discipline, disingenuously, dissection, distaff, diving bell, donkeywork, do-nothing, do-nothinga, door, down, draft, draft copy, drama, dramatic play, dream, drive, drown, drudgery, drudging, duct tape, duty period, dystopia, ease, economy, editing, edouard manet, edvard grieg, edvard hagerup grieg, efficiency, elaborate, elbow grease, electioneer, electric motor, electron volt, embassy, emil hermann fischer, employ, employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise, employee ownership, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia, energy unit, engage, engine, ensemble, enthalpy, entropy, epilog, epilogue, episode, erg, ergotropism, escape, essence, ethnologic, ethnological, eugene paul wigner, eugene wigner, eusebius hieronymus, eusebius sophronius hieronymus, ev, evening shift, evolve, examen, example, excerpt, excuse, exertion, exhaust, expense, expurgation, extract, eyestrain, factory whistle, faineance, faineant, fair, farm out, fascicle, fascicule, fatah, fatigue, fauvism, fechner, fechner's law, fellow worker, ferment, festoon, fiction, fictional character, fictionalisation, fictionalization, fictitious character, field, figure, filmable, finish, fischer, fixed up, flat, flnc, florence nightingale, foist, foliation, followup, follow-up, footage, foot-pound, foot-poundal, foreign mission, forfeit, for one thing, four-stroke engine, four-stroke internal-combustion engine, frederick soddy, freeload, friedrich august von hayek, frisch, front burner, full employment, gabor, galley slave, galvanisation, galvanization, game, gang, ganger, garageman's lien, garden, gardener, genre, germ, german police dog, german shepherd, german shepherd dog, germinate, gesell, get down, gist, giulio natta, glass ceiling, glorious, godard, goldbricking, golden years, golgi, goner, goofing off, gordimer, government office, graham, grain, graphic, gratification, graveyard shift, grieg, grumble, guestworker, guest worker, gun dog, gustav theodor fechner, hackwork, half-holiday, hamilton, hand in glove, hardworking, hayek, health profession, heap, heartily, heat engine, heat unit, heavy-duty, heavy lifting, heller, hendrik antoon lorentz, here, heroine, herschel, hertzian, hieronymus, high time, hired help, hokusai, holiday, holy day of obligation, home help, hope, hopkins, horatio alger, horse cart, horse-cart, horsepower-hour, humble, humiliated, hunt, hunting, idle, idleness, idler, impression, inaccessible, inactive, inclusion, incompatibility, inconsequent, inconsequential, increase, indicate, indite, indolence, indolent, industrious, inertia, influence, ingrain, in practice, inscribe, inscription, inspiration, inspire, instruct, interactive, interfere, interlock, inundated, inventory, itinerant, itinerate, jan tinbergen, jean luc godard, jean nicholas arthur rimbaud, jerome, jesuit order, john herschel, joiner, jolly, jolly boat, joseph heller, joule, jument, katsushika hokusai, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, keep up, kennelly, keynote, kill, kilogram-meter, kilowatt hour, kitchen help, kw-hr, label, laboring, labor of love, labouring, labour of love, land, lars onsager, latchkey child, lavation, lawrence, layabout, layoff, laziness, leakey, leave, leave of absence, legal holiday, lifework, light-duty, like thunder, liriodendron tulipifera, literary argument, literary criticism, live out, loaded downp, loafer, local department, logroll, long haul, long run, longueur, lorentz, love, lowly, low-powered, lucubration, magnum opus, make up, malingering, manet, man hour, manuala, manuscript, martha graham, mathematical, mature, measure, mechanic's lien, mechanize, menial, merit, mesh, migrant, migratory, military engineer, missionary post, missionary station, mistress, modeling, modelling, molded, molding, monastic, mondrian, monk, monotony, motif, moulding, move around, ms, muck about, musical composition, mutilate, nadine gordimer, nathan bailey, nathaniel bailey, national holiday, national liberation front of corsica, natta, navvy, neck-deep, needlecraft, needlenose pliers, needlework, needleworker, negligently, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, nightingale, night shift, nil, notice, novel, numerical, nursing, object, objet d'art, oblate, obscure, obscurely, occupational group, occupational safety and health administration, office block, office building, off-the-clock, old-age pension, on leave, onsager, on the jobp, opus, organisation, organization, origen, original, osha, otiose, outlier, out-of-school, out of work, outsource, outstanding, overall, overburden, overburdened, overdrive, overlook, overtime, paid, paid vacation, painless, paradisal, paragraph, parkinson's law, particular, passable, pastiche, pastoral, pattern, pay, payday, peer review, pen, peon, peonage, performer, performing artist, period piece, peripeteia, peripetia, peripety, perpetual motion machine, person hour, pet sitting, photocopy, physical exertion, picket, picture plane, piece, piece of music, piece of writing, piet mondrian, pile, pittance, plagiarism, plain clothes, plan, planking, planting, platen, play around, play hooky, plodding, plot, poetic license, pop, postponer, power, praetorian, premier, premiere, prep, preparation, presuppose, price, priestcraft, printing, probation, procrastinator, producer, progress report, proletariat, promote, propertyless, protagonist, publish, puddle, punch in, punch out, punctiliously, puritan, race, ragnar anton kittil frisch, ragnar frisch, ramon y cajal, randomness, rask, rasmus christian rask, realization, reassign, recess, recognition, recognize, recognized, reconstruction, reconstructive memory, recreate, redaction, referee, reference, reference work, refiner, relaxation, reliance, remuneration, remunerative, report, repose, reproduction, reproductive memory, republication, require, requirement, resolution, respite, rest, resume, retire, retired, retirement benefit, retirement check, retirement fund, retirement pension, retrospective, richard erskine leakey, richard leakey, richard wright, ride, right of first publication, rimbaud, robert woodrow wilson, rock maple, romanticize, rush hour, saint jerome, salon, salute, santiago ramon y cajal, scenario, scrimshank, sculpture, scut work, sea chantey, second law of thermodynamics, secretarial, secretarial assistant, secretary, section gang, seduce, seed, selection, semiautobiographical, serious, sewer, shahn, shanty, shaped, share, sheet-metal work, shift, ship, shipboard system, shirker, shirking, sick benefit, sick leave, sickness benefit, simon legree, sir frederick gowland hopkins, sir james dewar, sir john frederick william herschel, sir john herschel, sit, skivvy, skulking, slack, slacker, slacking, slapdash, slave driver, slavery, slavey, sleep out, slight, sloppily, sloth, slothful, slothfulness, smatter, smeared, smoothing plane, smooth plane, society of jesus, soddy, soldiering, source, spec, special, specialisation, specialise, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, specification, spell, spin, sporting dog, spot check, spurious, stagehand, stage technician, standard, start, stay up, stemma, stint, st. jerome, straw boss, street clothes, stucco, subcontract, sugar maple, superannuated, superannuation, supertitle, support, suppose, surtitle, swagger, swaggie, swagman, swamped, sweat, swing shift, syndication, synergistic, system, tabletop, tacitly, take off, take out, take time off, take up, talk, talk shop, taskmaster, tea break, team, temporarily, the lady with the lamp, theme, theretofore, thing, time and a half, timecard, time clock, time off, time out, tinbergen, tiredness, tireless, title, toiling, tonsorial, tout ensemble, town, trade, tranquilly, transfer, travel back and forth, tribute album, trick, trowel, tulip poplar, tulip tree, typing pool, unassuming, unassumingly, undercover operation, underestimate, undocumented, undone, unemployment rate, unfeelingly, ungenerous, uninterrupted, unlovely, unmalleable, unnaturally, unpaid worker, untiring, unwell, utilise, utopia, vacationer, vacationist, value, variety, vegetate, version, vestry, villain, virginia woolf, vocation, wage-earning, wait on, walk out, warhorse, waterpower, water waggon, water wagon, watt second, weariness, weber-fechner law, weekend warrior, weighed downp, well-ordered, welter, wetter, wherein, whirl, whistling, white-collar, white room, widely, wigner, wildcat, william wordsworth, wilson, wiring, woolf, wordsworth, workaholic, workbag, workbasket, workboard, work-board, workbox, workday, work day, workfellow, workflow, work flow, work in, work-in, workinga, working agreement, working class, working-class, working day, working dog, working principle, working rule, work off, work out, workroom, worksheet, work shift, work-shy, work song, workspace, work stoppage, work time, work unit, workweek, world premiere, wright, write, writer's name, writing board, written material, wrought, yardman, yellow poplar, yoke

Antonyms:
laze, malfunction, misfunction, stagnate

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