A factory, plant, or similar building or complex of buildings where a specific type of business or industry is carried on. Often used in combination: a steelworks.
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A fortified structure, such as a trench or fortress.
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A job; employment: looking for work.
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A material or piece of material being processed in a machine during manufacture: work to be turned in the lathe.
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A piece of such textile art.
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adjective
Of, relating to, designed for, or engaged in work.
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Used for work.
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Suitable or styled for wear while.
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Involving or engaged in work.
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phrasal-verb
Work in To cause to be inserted by repeated or continuous effort.
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Work in To insert or introduce: worked in a request for money.
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Work in To make an opening for, as in a schedule: said the doctor would try to work her in.
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Work into To cause to be inserted in by repeated or continuous effort: worked the pick into the lock.
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Work into To insert or introduce into.
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verb
To bring to pass.
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To fashion or create a useful or desired product by expending labor or exertion on.
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To make or decorate with needlework.
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To prepare for use by stirring or kneading.
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To bring into a desired form by a gradual process of cutting, hammering, scraping, pressing, or stretching.
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idiom
At work Engaged in labor; working: at work on a new project.
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At work In operation: inflationary forces at work in the economy.
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In the works In preparation; under development: has a novel in the works.
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Out of work Without a job; unemployed.
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Put in work To perform labor or duties, as on a specified project: put in work on the plastering.
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