work | Lernwerd

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1.Employment.
- My work involves a lot of travel.
- He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
- I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
2.Effort.
- We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
- There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
- Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
3.Product; the result of effort.
- There's a lot of guesswork involved.
- William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
- We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
4.The staging of events to appear as real.(slang)
- I was accustomed to hard work.
- I would hope that my teachers were eager to work.
- I often read comic books in my spare time at work.

1.To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- She works in the human resources department.
- I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
- She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.
2.To be operative in a specified way.
- That shirt doesn't work on her.
- This dough does not work easily.
- He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
3.To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.
- He is working his servants hard.
- She knows how to work the system.
- They worked on her to join the group.
4.To continue laboriously.
- The dye worked its way through.
- He worked his way through the crowd.
- Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom

Proto-Germanic *werką

Proto-West Germanic *werk

Old English weorc

Middle English werk

English work