work
Labour, occupation, job.
Other meanings
The place where one is employed.
One's employer.
A kind of
- geographic point
Kinds of work
- bakery
- telephone exchange
- pit
- drill site
- exchange
- farm
- fish farm
- ironworks
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "weorc".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “work” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.