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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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For decades, stimulant medications have been thought to work by directly influencing brain regions responsible for attention.

From Science Daily

To our surprise, our model worked remarkably well and the observed supernova seems to match really well the death of stars that we see regularly.

From Science Daily

"There is robust partnership work in place over the winter period to support individual care plans, and to ensure that people are in the right NHS service for their needs."

From BBC

When air-raid sirens go off, many residents go down to their basements, “but if you’re working downtown you go to one of the central shelters,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Foreign Office said it had been "a long-standing priority under successive governments" to work for Abdel Fattah's release and see him reunited with his family in the UK, but condemned his posts as "abhorrent".

From BBC