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functions

NOUN

capacity, job

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action activity affair behavior business duty exercise objective operation part power purpose responsibility role service situation task work

STRONG

charge concern employment faculty goal mark mission object occupation office post province use utility

WEAK

raison d'être

Antonyms

STRONGEST

entertainment fun idleness inaction inactivity inertia irresponsibility pastime

STRONG

unemployment

NOUN

social occasion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affair gathering meeting reception

STRONG

celebration do party

WEAK

get-together

VERB

perform, work

Synonyms

STRONGEST

behave operate react serve

STRONG

act cook do go move officialize officiate percolate run take

WEAK

act the part be in action be in commission be in operation be running do duty do one's thing get with it go to town take care of business

Antonyms

STRONG

abstain cease discontinue fail halt idle lose stay stop

WEAK

malfunction

Example Sentences

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Data center operators have for years resisted the idea, arguing that many data center functions are core to critical industries such as health and finance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

So while Legends will be responsible for paying workers, their job functions, attire and the accreditation needed to access SoFi will be managed by FIFA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Those stocks took a battering at the start of this year due to worries that artificial intelligence will replace certain software functions.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Because of its strong structural anisotropy, MoOCl2 functions as a natural hyperbolic medium.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

All of these expressions, but especially 0/0, could take on any value you desire them to have, depending on the functions you put in the numerator and denominator.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife