line of work
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3.1
- noun
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profesión
- I gotta find a new line of work.
- find another line of work
- another line of work
It's, you know, in my line of work, I'm risk averse.
- It's, you know, in my line of work, I'm risk averse.
- Solar heating is today sending coal miners into other lines of work.
- So I got into, it's very interesting how I got into my current line of work while I was under house arrest.
- Google the topic, stalk people that are pursuing this line of work.
- But they can take those different traits no matter what they do, no matter what line of work they're in.
- Because indecision in my line of work or deliberation will get you or someone killed.
- I'm I'm sure in in your line of work, what are some of the most ridiculous things that you see people spend money on?
Examples
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And I can't think of another line of work that I'd rather be in.
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What line of work is your brother in?
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How did you get into this line of work?
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My advice to you is to find some other line of work for yourself.
Fiction book (2000) -
I figured you knew somebody in that line of work.
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In my line of work, things tend to happen when it gets dark.
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Men in this line of work are not all alike.
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"So tell me, what line of work are you in, Ira?" he asked.
Fiction book (2002) -
I'm sure you get to know a lot of criminals in your line of work, too.
Fiction book (1992) -
How did you get into this line of work?
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Work that you do regularly to earn money
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1.8
The jobs a person does during their working life
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1.3
The work a person does to earn money
575
3.0
A company or service that moves people and goods
263
3.5
People who work in a particular skilled job, like carpenters
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2.7
A job or profession that a person does to earn money
59
7.7
A type of business or industry someone works in
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'line' (a category or area) + 'of' + 'work' (job/activity), so the meaning 'type or area of job' is directly derivable from its parts. This is a common, productively used noun-of-noun pattern (e.g. 'line of business', 'field of work') and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase line of work may come from the picture of market stalls standing in a row, where each stall did the same kind of work along a single line. So saying someone's line of work pointed to that row or type of 'job', which is why today it means the kind of 'job' someone has.