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What is another word for Work?

Use filters to view other words, we have 3815 synonyms for work.

How does the noun work contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of work are drudgery, grind, labor, toil, and travail. While all these words mean «activity involving effort or exertion,» work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.

In what contexts can drudgery take the place of work?

The meanings of drudgery and work largely overlap; however, drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.

When might grind be a better fit than work?

The synonyms grind and work are sometimes interchangeable, but grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.

When could labor be used to replace work?

The words labor and work are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.

When is toil a more appropriate choice than work?

The words toil and work can be used in similar contexts, but toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.

When is it sensible to use travail instead of work?

Although the words travail and work have much in common, travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.

To the «Catalogues», as we have said, was appended another work, the «Eoiae».

The remaining poem, the «Melampodia», was a work in three books, whose plan it is impossible to recover.

It seems at first to add to the difficulty of understanding how the cells are made, that a multitude of bees all work together; one bee after working a short time at one cell going to another, so that, as Huber has stated, a score of individuals work even at the commencement of the first cell.

When this work was accomplished, the miners resumed their picks and cut away the rock from underneath the wheel itself, taking care to support it as they advanced upon blocks of great thickness.

It was seventy miles, and he could ride it on Sunday and be ready for work Monday morning.

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker’s bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

As a matter of fact, «Thus Spake Zarathustra», though it is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum, is by no means the first of Nietzsche’s works that the beginner ought to undertake to read.

Browning’s later work is, full of intellect, alive with excellent passages (in the first volume of the Dramatic Idyls [50] perhaps more powerful than in any earlier work); notwithstanding all that, we think the change here indicated matter of regret.

I knew of no horse in the city of Oakland that worked the hours I worked.

In turn, Samuel Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, took up his work as a trainer of youth.

As Berkeley himself attested, his metaphysics didn’t work.»

That others were at work he knew by the sound, and by the fact that he sometimes collided with them; otherwise they might as well not have been there, for in the blinding dust storm a man could not see six feet in front of his face.

This was one of the speeches of the marchande de mode to Adrienne, and the dear girl repeated it in her mind, as she sat at work on me, without the slightest distrust of the heartless selfishness it so ill concealed.

«The ten men who guarded the tribe were set to work making a wall of stones across the narrow part of the valley.

He would clearly have died sooner than own it was hard work for him.

working schedule

Meaning: This is the timetable or the duties you have to complete daily. Sometimes it can be referred to as a roster or more informally as a “to-do list”.

Example:

When I started my new job my boss gave me my working schedule. I was working in the mornings from 8 to 1 pm from Monday to Thursday then from 4 pm to Midnight for Friday and Saturday. I only had one day off per week.

work to rule

Meaning: working the hours according to your contract but not doing anything more

When the workers are in dispute with their employers and are demanding better conditions the trade union representing them will suggest that they work to rule. This will put pressure on the management.

Example:

We had been in dispute for almost 4 weeks with no sign of any agreement. Our union then advised us to work to rule. We were not allowed to work overtime and we had to take our breaks and lunch hour. Everybody left the office at 5 pm every evening. The management got tired of this after one week and they agreed to most of our demands very quickly.

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working conditions

Meaning: One of those expressions related to work that you often hear in the news or read in newspapers. This relates to everything connected with your employment. It covers (includes) issues such as your hours, your holidays, your place of work and how generally you are treated by the company.

Example:

My friend got a new job last week. His working conditions were much improved. He got his own office, he started at 9 am and left before 6 pm every day.

overtime

Meaning: When you are busy and all of the work cannot be finished in your normal working hours your boss might ask you to work late for a few days to get the orders completed. This is referred to as overtime. It is usually official overtime when the boss agrees to it as normally you are paid extra for working “non-sociable hours” (hours when other people are at home with their families).

However, many people work unofficial overtime when they stay late to complete their work and get no additional pay.

Example:

I work overtime at least twice a month to get the orders completed. I do not mind as I get double pay (twice the hourly rate) when I work past 6 pm in the evening. It, however, has to be approved by my boss otherwise I get nothing.

Other English words connected with work can include:

committed

Meaning: this is an adjective to describe how much someone loves their work and works as hard as they can to be successful.

Example:

He is really committed to his work. He always has his mobile phone switched on and is constantly sending emails to his bosses and their clients.

dedicated

Meaning: Another adjective similar in meaning to ‘committed’. Dedicated means that an individual will do all that he/she can to fulfil his targets, achieve his goals and will not let anything else get in the way.

Example:

David was a dedicated employee. Working at weekends was not a problem for him. In fact, he even took his laptop with him on holidays and worked remotely from his hotel.

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