to work
- verb
- /wɜrk/
- Most of us need to work and pay the bills.
- work together
- work hard
- work at home
I mean not having to work all day long.
- I mean not having to work all day long.
- Most of us need to work and pay the bills.
- You clearly do not work for Wall Street, Jim.
- Just show up at work and work while you're at work.
- Immigrants come here, they work and they save money.
- I find the harder I work, the luckier I am.
- So you can't work with people like that.
- And no, you actually have to work and trade for those things.
- And he claims that he worked on these UFOs.
- We have plans, we have goals, we work hard, and we don't succeed.
- She said, quote, we're working timely on a solution.
Examples
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Well, you know I work for a temp agency.
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Adam, a sophomore at Southway High School, worked at the school's coffee cart each morning.
Academic text (2013) -
How long did you work at the gas station?
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I work for one of those law firms.
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My thought is if I work hard, I'll earn it.
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I'm on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing.
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The nurses are working hard.
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I find the harder I work, the luckier I am.
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Do you work here?
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Most of us need to work to pay the bills.
Synonyms
To earn money by having a job
Does a job in old or poetic language
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
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To move around a party or event and talk to many people to make connections
- Specialized
To shape metal by bending or hitting it at room temperature without heat
Do a simple job slowly or in the wrong way so it is much harder than needed
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
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Work as a verb comes from old German weorc meaning 'to do' or 'make', so to work is to do a job or be employed.