Meaning

2 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To put to use

  2. Give a job; Force to work (even if it is make-work)

More definitions
  • cause to work

Examples

30 sentences

  1. Don't put off the work till tomorrow.

    Не відкладайте роботу на завтра. — brambury

    ruНе откладывай работу на завтра. — Biga

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  2. I see they've put you to work.

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  3. Tom put together a hard-working team.

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  4. I've already put Tom to work on it.

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  5. Put Tom to work.

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Forms

puts to work, putting to work, put to work, put to work
Base formput to work · to put to work
3rd person singularputs to work
Present participleputting to work
Past simpleput to work
Past participleput to work

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyput to work
he, she, itputs to work

Past simpleLesson

all personsput to work

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave put to work
he, she, ithas put to work

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill put to work

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pussyfootpustuleputA1putativeputridputt

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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