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work

[wurk] / wɜrk /








Usage

What are other ways to say work? Work is the general word for exertion of body or mind, and it may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health.

Example Sentences

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She says being an adult can be boring, so getting to be a child for a day - and on a movie set - isn't a bad line of work.

From BBC

She said she had "better things to spend her money on than really expensive baggage fees" and had used the travel hack before "so I knew it worked".

From BBC

Certainly failing at least one of the mandatory impact tests and having to do remedial work to ensure they passed it will not have helped but won't explain everything.

From BBC

"I have a big computer but it hasn't worked since I arrived," she said.

From Barron's

As the freight industry contends with overcapacity and pressure on profitability, the company has been working to right-size its cost base and streamline its organizational and sales structure as it seeks to accelerate growth.

From The Wall Street Journal