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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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This assembly work can take as little as six weeks—once all of the missile’s components are in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The real test is how well it performs with my real, personal data, in real life, when I just need it to work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

On board the Sea Lady the work was continuous.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Zexiao Wang, Renwen Yu, and Hakan Salihoglu contributed equally to this work.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

“Hanging out with the cook guy or anyone else we work with? Voluntarily listening to bad music while swatting at black flies?”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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