headwork
- noun
- /ˈhɛdˌwɜrk/
- His headwork on the project helped identify the key issues that needed addressing.
Examples
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That was good headwork, lieutenant.
Fiction book (1997) -
Well, before you crawl off to die, Jordan, give me five minutes of good headwork.
Fiction book (1997) -
Do the headwork with me.
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But the man is brilliant and does the better headwork for our division.
Fiction book (1992) -
One side of this division contains those of the highest mental culture, simple ordinary people, intellectuals, headwork specialists, factory workers, and peasants joined by the common protest of their human nature against the domination of a para-human experience and governmental methods.
Blog text (2) -
The team relied on careful headwork to develop a solution to the complex problem.
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After much headwork, she finally understood the difficult concept in her mathematics class.
Synonyms
Careful use of your mind to consider something
A process of thinking carefully about something
Thinking hard to solve problems and come up with new ideas
Antonyms
How Much Effort
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Headwork is made of head ('mind') and work ('effort'), so it means work done by your mind rather than by your hands. That's why headwork means careful thinking to solve a problem.