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      work
      noun
      (uncountable) Employment.
      Labour, occupation, job.
      The place where one is employed.
      (by extension) One's employer.
      (uncountable) Effort.
      Effort expended on a particular task.
      Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
      Something on which effort is expended.
      (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
      (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
      (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
      (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
      Product; the result of effort.
      (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
      (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
      (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
      (countable) A fortification.
      (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
      (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
      (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
      (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
      A surname.
      (dated) A factory; a works.
      verb
      (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
      Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
      Said of one's job title [with as].
      Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
      General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
      (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
      (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
      (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
      (transitive) To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.
      To set into action.
      To exhaust, by working.
      To shape, form, or improve a material.
      To provoke or excite; to influence.
      To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
      (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
      To force to work.
      (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty.
      (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
      (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
      (transitive) To embroider with thread.
      (intransitive) To ferment.
      (transitive) To cause to ferment.
      (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
      (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
      (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
      (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
      (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
      (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
      (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
      Synonyms for work
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