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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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Not least because tensions between the two sides have made it harder for Chinese students who want to study or work there.

From BBC

It raises a question: is something more fundamental going wrong that could plague people across the UK travelling here for work, to see family or for holidays, for years to come?

From BBC

Because who other than the queen of comfort food could step into the shoes of Dame Prue Leith, who is leaving the show in order to "work less and play more"?

From BBC

Look down and there are thousands of young workers, graduates and apprentices, local and global, who work in offices and facilities, that were simply not there a decade ago.

From BBC

"It is of the utmost urgency that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class," she said.

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