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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.

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The 27-year-old had envisioned something more tropical when she signed up to participate in her second “Run Across Haiti,” an ambitious eight-day, 200-mile tour of the impoverished Caribbean nation sponsored by the nonprofit organization WORK.

From Washington Times • May 25, 2020

But it’s Cusk’s earlier memoir, A LIFE’S WORK, about her first year of motherhood, that has earned a permanent and essential place on my nightstand this year.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2018

WORK, PATIENCE: No coach starts at the top, so that means patience and coaching no matter the sport.

From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2016

"NEEDS A LOT OF WORK" "I think this show needs a lot of work," Ron Ruff, 52, of Fenton, Michigan, told Reuters after the show.

From Reuters • Apr. 3, 2011

And a vicious fate it was to be: now he was faced with the perversion of having to GO TO WORK.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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