Synonym: accomplish, achieve, busy, conduct, effect, employ, engage, handle, labor, make, manage, maneuver, manipulate, occupy, operate, run, toil. Similar words: at work, works, worker, work out, work off, work at, workout, work up. Meaning: [wɜrk /wɜːk] n. 1. activity directed toward making or doing something 2. a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing 3. the occupation for which you are paid 4. applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) 5. the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) 6. a place where work is done 7. (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force. v. 1. exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity 2. be employed 3. have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected 4. perform as expected when applied 5. shape, form, or improve a material 6. give a workout to 7. proceed along a path 8. operate in a certain place, area, or specialty 9. proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity 10. move in an agitated manner 11. cause to happen or to occur as a consequence 12. cause to work 13. prepare for crops 14. behave in a certain way when handled 15. have and exert influence or effect 16. operate in or through 17. cause to operate or function 18. provoke or excite 19. gratify and charm, usually in order to influence 20. make something, usually for a specific function 21. move into or onto 22. make uniform 23. use or manipulate to one's advantage 24. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of 25. cause to undergo fermentation 26. go sour or spoil 27. arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion.
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181. To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing.
182. He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
183. The establishment of the socialist system to we opened a reach the ideal state of roads, and the ideal into reality needs to rely on our hard work.
184. The car gets me there nicely in time for work.
185. After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
186. Forget all the reasons why it won't work, and believe the one reason why it will.
187. The firm went bankrupt before the building work was completed.
188. I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.
189. For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
190. His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs.
191. Their work is carried out behind a veil of secrecy.
192. He scrutinized the men's faces carefully/closely, trying to work out who was lying.
193. Please bring some samples of your work to the interview.
194. It helps them to unwind after a busy day at work.
195. The trouble with you is you don't really want to work.
196. He was always in work, right from the day he left school.
197. All I know is that she used to work in a bank .
198. His plan is to get a degree in economics and then work abroad for a year.
199. We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition(sentencedict.com), where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things.
200. He is still busy; he has not finished his work yet.
201. Is it right to loaf about when so much work needs to be done?
202. How can you work with so much clutter on your desk?
203. Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
204. I gained an insight into the work of a journalist.
205. Tell him to get off his arse and do some work for once.
206. The building needs urgent remedial work to make it safe.
207. Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
208. They're trying to work out a peace formula acceptable to both sides in the dispute.
209. They keep a list of people willing to work nights.
210. We can ensure that the work shall be done in the right way.
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