1. Physical or mental effort made in order to achieve or make something, eg labour, study, research, etc.
2. Employment.
Example: out of work
Thesaurus: occupation, profession, job, vocation, line, calling, employment, craft, trade, business, skill, avocation, pursuit.
3. One's place of employment.
Example: He leaves work at 4.30
4. Tasks to be done. Also in compounds.
Example: She often brings work home with her
Example: housework
Thesaurus: jobs, tasks, chores, assignments, projects, commitments, duties, obligations.
5. The product of mental or physical labour.
Example: His work has improved
Example: a lifetime's work
Thesaurus: performance, handiwork, output, endeavour, production.
6. A manner of working, or workmanship.
7a. Any literary, artistic, musical, or dramatic composition or creation;
7b. The entire collection of such material by an artist, composer or author, etc.
Form: works
8. Anything done, managed, made or achieved, etc; an activity carried out for some purpose.
Example: works of charity
9. old use
Needlework.
10. Things made in the material or with the tools specified; the production of such things.
Example: basketwork
11. The parts of a building, etc using a specified material.
Example: stonework
12. Building or repair operations.
Example: roadworks
Form: works
13. A rampart or defense.
Example: earthworks
Form: works
14. colloq
The operating parts of eg a watch or machine; the mechanism.
Thesaurus: parts, cogs, wheels, gears, pistons, springs, coils, chains, rods, pulleys, wires.
Form: works
15. The place of manufacture of a specified product.
Example: gasworks
Form: works
16. colloq
Everything possible, available or going; the whole lot
Example: She has a headache, fever, cold ― the works!
Thesaurus: everything, all, totality, entirety, the whole, the whole shebang.
Form: the works
17. physics.
The transfer of energy that occurs when force is exerted on a body to move it, measured in joules.
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