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work

/wɜːk/

noun

Meaning

  • (heading) Employment.

  • (heading) Effort.

  • Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

    "We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags."

  • (heading) Product; the result of effort.

  • The staging of events to appear as real.

  • Ore before it is dressed.

  • The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

    "Tell me you're using clean works at least."