work
- noun
- /wɜrk/
- I walk the same road to work each Monday.
- go to work
- work environment
- home from work
I walk the same road to work each Monday.
- I walk the same road to work each Monday.
- And what's your life like outside of work at that time?
- And mom went to to work and can you come get me?
- Like the workplace and and coming to work at LTT or at LMG?
- Space is not only where I work, it's also how I think.
- Nobody's out on the streets, can't go to work, work shut down.
Examples
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Ever consider another line of work?
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And then I go to work.
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I used to walk to work every single day.
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I would wear them to work or for a night out.
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And what's your life like outside of work at that time?
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Let's get back to work.
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Hey, I think you're late for work.
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The care worker from Norwich, Norfolk, was returning to work after a career break for childcare.
Academic text (2011) -
Jamie is a citizen of State A, but commutes to work each day in State B.
Academic text (2017) -
I drive to the office for work every weekday morning.
Synonyms
Work that you do regularly to earn money
A place where people do their jobs
A large place with buildings and machines where materials are made or treated
A room where someone makes things by hand or paints
An area or room where you do your work, for example at an office desk
A place where people build or repair buildings and machines
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Act with different goals so people cannot work well together
- Informal
To put a lot of effort into work and enjoy free time actively
- Informal
A humorous question asking if people do their job a lot or only a little
Compounds
An object like a painting or sculpture that people think is beautiful and made with skill
- Informal
Something impressive but difficult, for example a book or building, and sometimes a person who behaves strangely
- Formal
Official paper that lets a person from another country work in that country for a time
Planned activities by religious people to share their faith and help communities
Work that installs, fixes, or looks after wires and devices that bring power into a building
A system where students do paid part-time work and study to gain experience
A song with a steady beat people sing to make repeating work easier, for example in fields or on ships
A belief that hard work, discipline, and saving money are morally good, often linked to Protestant Christianity
- Archaic
Workers who stay at their workplace and keep working to protest closure or job cuts
- Formal
Official documents that show a person may have a job, often for immigrants or young workers
- Specialized
The job of shaping and joining thin metal sheets to make building parts like vents
- Formal
Friendly relationships between people who work together that can cause problems
- Specialized
A type of metal that stays hard at high temperatures used to make cutting tools like drills
- Specialized
Work done by a person who is not a lawyer to help legal cases, like preparing documents and doing research
- Specialized
Work of designing, making, and fixing metal tools and forms used to make parts
- Informal
A close, supportive colleague you have a personal bond with that is not romantic
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Etymology
Work comes from an old German word weorc meaning 'something done' or 'deed', and the same root is in German Werk and English workshop, so work as a place is simply the place where the doing happens.