Definition of work

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Work (n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor..

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Carpentering :: Carpentering (n.) The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.
Overply :: Overply (v. t.) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork.
Goaves :: Goaves (n.) Old workings. See Goaf.
Peon :: Peon (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt..
Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..
Preliminary :: Preliminary (n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college..
Curiousness :: Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
Pallium :: Pallium (n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall..
Millwork :: Millwork (n.) The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Waxworker :: Waxworker (n.) A bee that makes or produces wax.
Cellulose :: Cellulose (n.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin..
Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done..
Facility :: Facility (n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art..
Piece :: Piece (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
Shopman :: Shopman (n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.
Stereotypery :: Stereotyper (n.) One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry..
Striker :: Striker (n.) A workman who is on a strike.
Disworkmanship :: Disworkmanship (n.) Bad workmanship.
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