Meaning

19 senses

  1. Employment.

    (countable, uncountable)Labour, occupation, job.

    My work involves a lot of travel.

    Arbeit

    рабо́таrabóta, трудtrud

    робо́таrobóta, пра́цяprácja

    the occupation for which you are paid

  2. (countable, uncountable)The place where one is employed.

    He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.

    Arbeit

    рабо́таrabóta

    робо́таrobóta, пра́цяprácja

    a place where work is done

  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)One's employer.

    I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.

  4. (countable, dated, uncountable)A factory; a works.

  5. Effort.

    (countable, uncountable)Effort expended on a particular task.

    Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.

    Arbeit

    рабо́таrabóta, трудtrud

  6. (countable, uncountable)Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

    We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

    We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

  7. (countable, uncountable)Something on which effort is expended.

    There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.

  8. Something on which effort is expended.

    (countable, euphemistic, uncountable)Cosmetic surgery.

    has had a lot of work done

    Arbeit

    рабо́таrabóta

  9. (countable, slang, uncountable)Prison gang violence.

    putting in work

  10. Effort.

    (countable, uncountable)A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

    Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:work.

    Arbeit

    рабо́таrabóta

  11. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.

  12. Product; the result of effort.

    (in compounds, often, uncountable)The result of a particular manner of production.

    There's a lot of guesswork involved.

    трудtrud

Examples

25542 sentences

  1. You worked a lot this week.

    Ви багато працювали цього тижня. — Anjy

    ruТы много работал на этой неделе. — sharptoothed

    deDu hast diese Woche viel gearbeitet. — MUIRIEL

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  2. Have you finished the work yet?

    Ти вже закінчив роботу? — deniko

    ruТы уже закончил работу? — marafon

    deHast du die Aufgabe schon erledigt? — quicksanddiver

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  3. How is your work coming along?

    Як просувається твоя робота? — deniko

    ruКак продвигается ваша работа? — marafon

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  4. I want you to work harder.

    Я хочу, щоб ти більше працював. — deniko

    ruЯ хочу, чтобы ты больше работал. — odexed

    deDu sollst härter arbeiten! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. I expect you to work harder.

    Я очікую, що ти працюватимеш старанніше. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
labour, employment, occupation, job:
Русский
By meaning 3
labour, employment, occupation, job:
literary, artistic, or intellectual production:
fortification:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
labour, employment, occupation, job:
literary, artistic, or intellectual production:

Origin

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, fr

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make”).

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Forms

plural: works

Synonyms

16 synonyms
jobA1occupationA2employmentB1contentB1pieceA1effortA2creative workopusexertionpainswark
Close in meaning
  • the occupation for which you are paid:employment
  • the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it):oeuvrebody of work
  • a place where work is done:workplace
  • applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading):study

Antonyms

1 antonyms
hobbyA1

Word family

568 related words
RelatedinstrumentA2occupationA2
DerivedfireworkB1homeworkA1houseworkB1networkB1overworkB1paperworkB2schoolworkA2stoneworkB2teamworkB1workaholicB2workbenchB2workmanB2workoutB1workplaceB1workshopB1worktableB2adzeworkafter-workallworkantiworkartworkat workback-to-work orderbackwork

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • working as a
  • going to work
  • worked hard
  • have to work
  • used to work
  • want to work
  • work together
  • lot of work
  • back to work
  • to work with
  • to work on
  • work in a

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wordA1wordsmithC2wordyworkableworkaholicB2workbenchB2

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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