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Synonyms for work
be employed
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- be employed
- do business
- have a job
- earn a living
- be in work
- hold down a job
labour
succeed
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- succeed
- work out
- pay off
- be successful
- be effective
- do the trick
- do the business
- get results
- turn out well
- have the desired result
- go as planned
accomplish
employment
effort
writings
out of work
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- unemployed
- on the street
- jobless
- idle
- on the dole
- out of a job
work on someone
work someone up
work something out: solve
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work something out: plan
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physical exertion that is usually difficult and exhausting
activity pursued as a livelihood
something that is the result of creative effort
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an issue of printed material offered for sale or distribution
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the technique, style, and quality of working
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an amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back
to exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion
to arrive at an answer to (a mathematical problem)
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to handle in a way so as to mix, form, and shape
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work out: to arrive at an answer to (a mathematical problem)
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work out: to form a strategy for
work out: to subject to or engage in forms of exertion in order to train, strengthen, or condition
Synonyms for work
activity directed toward making or doing something
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- lavation
- washing
- wash
- activity
- action
- job
- procedure
- operation
- service
- polishing
- shining
- heavy lifting
- housewifery
- housekeeping
- housework
- ironing
- busywork
- make-work
- logging
- loose end
- unfinished business
- nightwork
- paperwork
- social service
- welfare work
- toil
- labor
- labour
- subbing
- substituting
- investigating
- investigation
- care
- tending
- attention
- aid
- duty
- missionary work
- mission
- spadework
- timework
- project
- task
- undertaking
- coursework
a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
the occupation for which you are paid
applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
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(physics) a manifestation of energy
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a place where work is done
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- bakehouse
- bakery
- bakeshop
- beehive
- brokerage house
- brokerage
- central
- telephone exchange
- exchange
- colliery
- pit
- creamery
- drill site
- farm
- fishery
- piscary
- fish farm
- smithy
- forge
- gasworks
- glassworks
- ironworks
- job
- lab
- laboratory
- research lab
- research laboratory
- science lab
- science laboratory
- laundry
- location
- locker room
- lumberyard
- oyster bank
- oyster bed
- oyster park
- proving ground
- rope yard
- ropewalk
- roundhouse
- shipyard
- shop floor
- studio
- tannery
- test bed
- waterworks
- workshop
- shop
- geographic point
- geographical point
the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
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exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
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- run through
- work through
- go through
- monkey around
- muck about
- muck around
- potter
- mess around
- tinker
- monkey
- putter
- carpenter
- do work
- work
- clerk
- page
- waitress
- wait
- pull one's weight
- electioneer
- assist
- beaver
- beaver away
- work at
- work on
- keep one's nose to the grindstone
- keep one's shoulder to the wheel
- peg away
- plug away
- slog
- busy
- occupy
- collaborate
- cooperate
- join forces
- get together
- volunteer
- specialise
- specialize
- minister
- intern
- skipper
- boondoggle
- scant
- skimp
- whore
- serve