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- Protestant work ethic
- A Calvinist value emphasizing the necessity of constant labor in a person's calling as a sign of personal salvation
- Puritan work ethic
- Alternative name for Protestant work ethic
- all in a day's work
- A nonchalant dismissal of a significant accomplishment
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Too much focus on one's career is often viewed unfavorably
- at work
- At one's workplace
He's not at home at the moment, he's at work.
- at work
- working, in the process of doing work
Don't interrupt me while I'm at work on my housing project.
- attorney's work product
- : Evidence which a party to a lawsuit does not have to reveal during the discovery process because it represents the thought process of the attorney preparing for trial
- back-to-work order
- A legally binding directive—issued by a court of law, legislature, or other authority—that requires workers who are engaging in a strike or similar labor action to return to work
Ontario lawmakers voted to impose fines on workers and the union if they failed to heed a back-to-work order.
- bodies of work
- plural form of body of work
- body of work
- The entirety of the creative or academic output produced by a particular individual or unit
- busy work
- Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness
Until we have a system clearly established, entering more data is just busy work.
- busy-work
- Alternative spelling for busy work
- chamber-work
- The work of a chambermaid
- chamber-work
- Sex, fornication
Jacchinus instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
- close enough for government work
- It is not worth investing additional time on perfecting this thing
- cold work
- Any of several plastic deformations of metal (or other material) at relatively low temperatures
- derivative work
- In copyright law, a work that is a variation of an original work sufficiently similar to contain protected elements of the original work, but sufficiently different to qualify for copyright protection independent of the original work
- donkey work
- Hard, boring, routine work
Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work?.
- field work
- A temporary fortification in the field
If any person, without lawful authority, makes or attempts to make any sketch, drawing, photograph, picture, painting, model or note of any fort, battery, field work, fortification or any military work of defence, aerodrome, barracks, post, magazine, munition factory, stores depot or any other Government property occupied or partly occupied by the Defence Forces or any portion thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, and all sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, paintings, models and notes and all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing, painting or modelling found in his possession shall be forfeited and may be destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as a Minister of State directs.
- field work
- The collection of raw data, in the field
- finger work
- The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, especially in playing a musical instrument
- frame work knitter
- less common spelling of framework knitter
- functional work
- A work that can be considered to be of practical use, such as software, encyclopedias, dictionaries and textbooks; having no point of view and non-fiction in nature
- go to work
- beat up, batter
I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left..
- go to work
- To go to one's job, as by commuting
- go to work
- To begin performing some task or work
- grunt work
- Work (especially that which is heavy, repetitive or mindless) that is considered undesirable and therefore delegated to underlings
He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes.
- hand-work
- variant of handiwork
- hard work
- Something requiring lots of effort to do, either physical, mentally or emotionally; labor; toil
- have one's work cut out for one
- To face a large task or project
If he plans to translate all the idioms, he has his work cut out for him.
- lattice-work
- A lattice or latticelike structure; interlacing laths or strips of metal
- make quick work of
- To accomplish a specified task easily and quickly
- make short work of
- to make a task quicker or easier
A good electric screwdriver will make short work of the disassembly process.
- make-work
- An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need
The assignment was simply make-work to keep them busy on a rainy day.
- many hands make light work
- A large number of people co-operating can perform tasks easily
- only fools and horses work
- Philosophy of life that people who do not look for an easy way of earning a living are foolish
- out of work
- unemployed, or having nothing to do
- piece of work
- A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws (e.g. a nasty piece of work)
Known as Pixie for his fresh looks, and Dr Death for his cold stare of disapproval, Rudd was said to have few friends in Canberra. Former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Mark Latham described him, respectively, as a menace and a terrible piece of work.
- piece of work
- A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft
Dead Man Walking” is a powerful and intelligent piece of work.
- piece work
- work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked
- reference work
- A compendium of information, which is not intended to be read from beginning to end, and is compiled for ease of reference. Examples include encyclopedias and dictionaries
- sale of work
- a fundraising event with raffles, cake sales, bingo etc; usually run by churches and schools
- seminal work
- A work from which other works grow. The term usually refers to an intellectual or artistic achievement whose ideas and techniques have been adopted or responded to in later works by other people, either in the same field or in the general culture
- set to work
- To cause to begin working
I set the pump to work getting the water out of the basement.
- set to work
- To begin working
Everyday he sets to work at the new assignments.
- set to work
- To begin working at
As soon as I could, I set to work making the entries.
- so crazy it just might work
- Possibly feasible though unconventional; plausible and previously unconsidered as a course of action
- social work
- Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to those members of the community that need it
- stroke of work
- a small amount of work
I fear I am going to fail my exams because I have not done a stroke of work this semester.
- summer-work
- summer fallow
- summer-work
- to summer-fallow
- thirsty work
- Physical labor of a type that causes the laborer to sweat and become thirsty
'Tis thirsty work, this marching, fighting, ay.
- voluntary work
- Work done voluntarily
- welfare-to-work
- A social program designed to wean those receiving government benefits back into employment
- wet work
- Covert assassination performed by government operatives
- work
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage
She knows how to work the system.
- work
- To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth
- work
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones
- work
- Labour, employment, occupation, job
My work involves a lot of travel.
- work
- To behave in a certain way when handled
The soft metal works well.
- work
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production
It is a work of art.
- work
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality
This artist works mostly in acrylics.
- work
- A fortification
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
- work
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for
My plan didn’t work.
- work
- To cause to work
He is working his servants hard.
- work
- A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit
- work
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
I cannot work a miracle.
- work
- To cause to ferment
- work
- To set into action
He worked the levers.
- work
- To exhaust, by working
the mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
- work
- 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.
- work
- To influence
They worked on her to join the group.
- work
- Effort expended on a particular task
It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
- work
- The staging of events to appear as real
- work
- To cause (someone) to feel
- work
- To move in an agitated manner
His fingers worked with tension.
- work
- To provoke or excite; to influence
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
- work
- To embroider with thread
- work
- To shape, form, or improve a material
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
- work
- The place where one is employed
He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
- work
- To effect by gradual degrees
The dye worked its way through.
- work
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers
I work with the homeless people from the suburbs.
- work a treat
- To work, to function very well
- work at
- To make a physical or mental effort to progress some specified task
- work breakdown structure
- A complete hierarchically organized specification of the tasks whose complete is required to complete a project
- work ethic
- The tendency to work hard at one's job or duties
- work ethic
- The value that one ought to work hard at one's job or duties
- work ethics
- plural form of work ethic
- work experience
- A short unpaid period of time at a workplace, to gain experience of a working environment
- work function
- The minimum energy needed to remove an electron from the surface of a material
- work hardening
- The repeated plastic deformation of a material, causing a permanent distortion of its crystal structure, and an increase in its strength
- work houses
- plural form of work house
- work husband
- a man with whom a woman has a platonic intimacy at work
- work in progress
- Work that has been commenced, but is not complete
All the efforts to make a New Man are still work in progress.
- work in progress
- A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods
Work in progress has dramatically declined due to reduced production cycle times.
- work in progress
- A project that has been commenced but is not complete
Reorganizing my office is a work in progress.
- work like a charm
- To be successful as a solution
- work marriage
- a work-based platonic intimacy between a man and a woman
- work nights
- To work, nights, as a prostitute
- work of art
- A product of the fine arts; a painting, sculpture etc
- work of art
- Something of sufficient quality to be compared to such a product
- work of fiction
- A fictitious account; an account of events that never took place
Though originally considered genuine, the diaries are now generally considered a work of fiction.
- work of fiction
- A fictional account; a story
- work off
- To lose (weight) by doing physical work
- work on
- to shape, form or improve something
John's in the studio working on the plans for the new house.
- work on
- to exercise influence on someone
Leave it to me. I'll try to work on the boss to give us the day off.
- work one's butt off
- To work very hard or to excess
- work one's fingers to the bone
- Work especially hard, usually for an extended period
- work one's tail off
- Work excessively or to the point of exhaustion
- work order
- An authorization to expend resources to perform a task
I don't care who you are; I can't do anything without a work order.
- work out
- To make sense of
I can't work these instructions out.
- work out
- To succeed
Are you still seeing John? - No, it didn't work out.
- work out
- To habitually exercise rigorously, especially by lifting weights, in order to increase strength or muscle mass or maintain fitness
Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out?.
- work out
- To conclude with the correct solution
These figures just don't work out.
- work out
- (with object after out) To calculate
Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?.
- work out
- (with object between work and out) To extract gradually
Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.
- work over
- To improve a prototype, or first draft
The estimated figures are not bad, but somebody will have to work them over.
- work over
- To physically attack in order to cause injury
He'll talk, once we work him over.
- work path
- An area or physical space that a robot occupies to complete a task
- work permit
- A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than that in which he/she holds citizenship
- work placement
- Practicum (college course)
- work placements
- plural form of work placement
- work schmerk
- work; term has a negative nuance
- work shadowing
- the process of accompanying and observing someone at work in order to train or to obtain insight
- work someone's arse off
- Alternative form of work someone's ass off
- work someone's ass off
- To work excessively or to the point of exhaustion
We worked our asses off for him all week.
- work someone's butt off
- To cause someone to work hard, eg, as a supervisor
- work someone's tail off
- To cause someone to work hard, eg, as a supervisor
- work song
- A song, sung during work, with a rhythm that helps to coordinate activities
- work songs
- plural form of work song
- work spouse
- A man or woman in the workplace with whom one shares a special relationship having bonds similar to those of a marriage: special confidences, loyalties, shared jokes and experiences, and unusual degree of honesty or openness
- work the crowd
- To work the room, especially out-of-doors
- work the room
- To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation
As a campaigning politician, he really knew how to shake hands, kiss babies, and work the room.
- work the room
- To interact with one's audience, taking cues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm
In show business parlance, Miss Hudson knows how to work the room. Her comic turns are as rooted in vaudeville as her high-style wit is straight out of the smart supper club circuit.
- work to rule
- To work slowly by strictly following all work rules, usually in a work-to-rule job action, as part of unionized labor protest
- work up
- To raise; to excite; to stir up
He worked up the public's passions to rage.
- work up
- To develop
I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.
- work up a head of steam
- To start becoming active and energetic
- work up a head of steam
- To become stressed
- work wife
- a woman with whom a man has a platonic intimacy at work
- work wonders
- To be successful as a solution
- work zone
- A segment of road along which road construction is being done
Posted speed limit is 45mph( uncovered and highly visible) with work zone signs posted stating 25 mph.
- work zone
- An area where work is being done
- work-in-progress
- Attributive use of work in progress as adjective
We've worked hard to reduce work-in-progress inventory by speeding up production.
- work-life
- Of or pertaining to the relationship between ones work and personal life
- work-life balance
- The relative importance of work and personal life to a particular individual
- work-release
- Attributive form of work release
work-release program.
- work-safe
- That can be viewed from one's workplace without the risk of disciplinary action; not graphic or offensive
- work-to-rule
- Of or pertaining to a labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown
Disgruntled by chronic staff shortages, doctors threatened a “work-to-rule” action at the East London Hospital Complex by the end of this week.
- work-to-rule
- Such a labor protest
- work
- move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck"
- work
- People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do. Weiner works for the US Department of Transport I started working in a recording studio Where do you work? He worked as a bricklayer's mate I want to work, I don't want to be on welfare
- hard work
- difficult work, labor that requires a lot of effort
- out of work
- not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
- out of work
- Someone who is out of work does not have a job. a town where half the men are usually out of work. an out of work actor. = unemployed. out-of-work unemployed
- out of work
- without work, out of a job, unemployed
- work
- To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth
- work out
- If you work out the answer to a mathematical problem, you calculate it. It is proving hard to work out the value of bankrupt firms' assets When asked what a £40.35 meal for five people would cost each diner, they were unable to work it out. = calculate
- work out
- {f} work hard; complete; calculate, figure out; develop, take place or occur in a certain way; exercise, exert oneself physically, do physical exercise
- work out
- If a situation works out well or works out, it happens or progresses in a satisfactory way. Things just didn't work out as planned One of the ways people experience loss is when relationships don't work out
- work out
- If something works out at a particular amount, it is calculated to be that amount after all the facts and figures have been considered. The price per pound works out at £3.20 It will probably work out cheaper to hire a van and move your own things
- work out
- If you work out a solution to a problem or mystery, you manage to find the solution by thinking or talking about it. Negotiators are due to meet later today to work out a compromise It took me some time to work out what was causing this `How will you contact me?' --- `We haven't worked that out yet.' = figure out If you have something all worked out, you have thought about it carefully, and know exactly what you are going to do or exactly what you want. I had the ideal man all worked out in my mind
- Protestant Work Ethic
- A concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes hard work, frugality and diligence as a constant display of a person's salvation in the Christian faith, in contrast to the focus upon religious attendance, confession, and ceremonial sacrament in the Catholic tradition
- Puritan Work Ethic
- A concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes hard work, frugality and diligence as a constant display of a person's salvation in the Christian faith, in contrast to the focus upon religious attendance, confession, and ceremonial sacrament in the Catholic tradition
- get back to work
- continue
- get back to work
- proceed
- rustic-work
- {n} in building, is where the face of the stones is picked with and instrument
- work
- {v} to labor, toil, do, raise, ferment, be agitated, take effect, produce, make way, embroider
- work
- {n} labor, toil, employment, a deed, a book, materials of labor, effect, treatment
- awork
- At work; in action