work wife
work wife · work wives
A woman with whom another person has a platonic intimacy at workA woman with whom another person has a platonic intimacy at work.
» Tom never discusses his work with his wife.
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1 sensesA woman with whom another person has a platonic intimacy at work.
Examples
6 sentencesTom never discusses his work with his wife.
I'm at work, but my wife is at home.
deIch bin auf Arbeit, aber meine Frau ist zu Hause. — Yorwba
He worked for your wife.
Ziri has a work wife and a home wife.
Zira has a work wife.
Forms
plural: work wives| Singular | work wife |
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Word family
4 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.