work (original) (raw)
work noun (PLACE)
to work Do you have far to travel to work each day?
for work When does she leave for work?
work noun (SURGERY)
work noun (EVERYTHING)
work noun (FACTORY)
work noun (MACHINE)
work noun (PHYSICS)
[ U ] physics specialized
Grammar
Idioms
work verb (DO JOB)
Where do you work?
work at He works at the hospital.
work verb (ARRANGE)
work it I don't know how she worked it, but she retired at 50.
work things (out) Can we work things (out) so that there's always someone here to answer the phone during office hours?
work verb (SHAPE)
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of work from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
work | American Dictionary
work verb (DO A JOB)
[ I ] Medics were working on him for an hour.
work verb (PERFORM AS INTENDED)
work verb (HAVE EFFECT)
Time was working against us.
Jimmie has a lot working in his favor.
work verb (MAKE OBJECT)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
work noun (FORCE)
work noun (PLACE)
I had to leave work early.
work noun (OBJECT)
work noun (DO A JOB)
Steve’s out of work again (= not employed).
Idioms
(Definition of work from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
work | Business English
be working towards sth Our firm is working towards being a paperless environment.
[ T ] WORKPLACE, IT informal
work sb hard
to make someone use a lot of effort:
He works his trainees really hard.
work it so (that) informal
work your way up sth (also work your way up to sth)
work your way up the ladder/hierarchy/ranks I'd like to stay here and work my way up the audit career ladder.
Phrasal verbs
He's been out of work for six months now.
give up/go back to/return to work
The Managing Director always arrived at work early and stayed late.
be at/go to/leave work What time do you go to work in the morning?
start/finish/stop work I don't finish work until 6.30 pm.
I need to take some time off work to look after my son.
carry out/put in work The whole team put in a lot of hard work to win the contract.
Management still has a lot of work to do to ensure the company's future.
The committee's report was a very good piece of work.
good/hard work
have your work cut out for you informal
See also
(Definition of work from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of work
work
Space permits only a cursory overview of these slighter works.
In order for the equilibrium notion to do any work for the players, moreover, they should know each other's strategies.
At 25 minutes' duration and requiring 25 players, it is one of the most substantial works ever to come out of the project.
One can argue that if a numerical scheme works well, then its numerical dissipation must have the same qualitative properties as the physical dissipation.
They worked toward quick and uniform program implementation and national program standards.
However, it does not show that the idea of purely functional space does not work.
Affective responses seem to occur when pupils have almost finished their work.
There is also the question of marking pupils' or students' work.
The teachers, as working women who were active in civic affairs, served as role models to the pupils.
Moreover, by working with the entire population of existing design solutions, it makes the indexation and selection of relevant cases redundant.
This was reinforced by the low priority given to public health work at all levels within the organization and by primary care team colleagues.
The work reported in this paper represents the first part of a two part research project.
The work represents the product of two workshops, held in 2004 and 2005.
The text is unique, as it represents the work of a single author, who cogently articulates a systematic approach to psychiatry.
Servants were gradually replaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.
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Even feeling and sight - faculties which we might think of as spontaneous, natural, unmediated - are the fruits of long and arduous work.
This is because those authorities which have assigned work to their own work forces cannot simply revise a specification to meet higher standards.
His best-known work is his piano concerto which premiered in 1941.
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