Words and phrases whose definition contains work:  (1133 results)
action, active, afraid, alger, along, annals, apply, artist, assist, attack, attend, backseat, baddie, badly, bailey, balance, baldly, beatniks, beaver, behind, bench clamp, ben shahn, best-known, blackleg, blue law, boatswain, bosun, botchy, brainchild, breast drill, bunk off, burden, burdened, busy, caning, capsule, cartage, carter, carting, casebook, chantey, chanty, chapter, clean room, clinic, clock in, clock off, clock on, clock out, closet, coating, colleague, commit, commute, compose, conflict, contrast, contrive, correct, coursework, craftsman, credit, crewman, crossroads, cutter, dabble, dawah, daycare, day care, day off, day shift, day watch, deflate, demur, deserve, design, despise, device, dewar, dingdong, distaff, drama, drudging, duct tape, duty, effect, effort, employ, engage, engine, escape, essence, evolve, excerpt, excuse, exhaust, expense, exploit, extract, eyestrain, faineance, farm out, fatah, fatigue, fechner, ferment, festoon, fiction, figure, finish, fischer, fixed up, follow, foot-pound, footage, forfeit, free-lance, freeload, gabor, ganger, garden, genre, gesell, get down, godard, golgi, goner, graham, graphic, grumble, gun dog, hackwork, handcraft, handwork, hayek, heavy, heller, herschel, high time, hire, homework, home help, hopkins, horse-cart, horse cart, hours, housework, humble, hunting, idle, increase, indite, ingrain, inscribe, inspire, instruct, intern, jerome, joiner, jolly, jument, keep up, keynote, label, labor, labour, lacework, lawrence, layoff, lazy, leakey, lifework, live out, loafer, logging, logroll, longueur, long haul, long run, loose end, lorentz, lowly, make-work, make up, manet, master, mature, measure, merit, migrant, mission, mistress, molded, molding, monkey, moonlight, motif, moulding, natta, navvy, neck-deep, nightwork, night shift, notice, novel, nursing, object, oblate, obscure, off-the-clock, on leave, opus, osha, outsource, painless, pastiche, pattern, payday, peon, picket, piecework, pittance, plain clothes, planking, planting, platen, plodding, potter, power, premier, premiere, priestcraft, printing, project, promote, publish, puddle, punch in, punch out, putter, recess, report, repose, respite, resume, retire, retired, rimbaud, sailing, salon, salute, scrimshank, sculpture, scut work, seduce, service, sewer, shanty, shining, shirker, shirking, shop floor, sick leave, skipper, skivvy, skulking, slacker, slacking, slapdash, sleep out, slothful, smatter, smooth plane, soddy, spadework, special, spot check, stagehand, standard, stay up, stemma, straw boss, street clothes, stucco, support, suppose, swagger, swaggie, swagman, swing shift, system, take off, take out, take up, talk shop, teamwork, tea break, tending, timecard, timework, time clock, time off, time out, tinker, title, toiling, transfer, travail, travel, trowel, undone, unwell, value, version, vestry, villain, wait on, walk out, warhorse, washing, welter, wetter, wherein, whistling, white room, wicker, widely, wigner, wildcat, wilson, wiring, woodwork, wordsworth, work-board, work-in, work-shy, workbag, workboard, workbox, workday, workflow, working, workload, workpiece, workplace, workroom, worksheet, workspace, workweek, work day, work flow, work in, work off, work out, work shift, work song, work time, writing, yardman
abridgement, abridger, abridgment, accustomed, agonist, al-fatah, alsatian, amazing, analects, apprentice, arduous, argument, art object, attend to, attention, attitude, author's name, average, baby-sit, beauty shop, belabor, belabour, blue-collar, bodywork, boilersuit, boilers suit, boondoggle, boringly, brake system, break one's back, buckle down, building block, busywork, carefulness, carpenter, castration, catch up with, character, clerical, clinician, clock-watching, co-worker, coffee break, commuter, congenial, continue, copyright, covering, creative, cross-index, cunctator, denouement, deployment, develop, diagram, dictator, discipline, dissection, diving bell, do-nothing, donkeywork, draft copy, drudgery, editing, elaborate, elbow grease, embassy, energy, ensemble, enthalpy, entropy, epilog, epilogue, episode, evening shift, examen, example, exercise, exertion, faineant, fascicle, fascicule, fauvism, filmable, follow-up, followup, foot-poundal, for one thing, front burner, galley slave, gardener, germinate, glass ceiling, glorious, goldbricking, golden years, goofing off, gordimer, graveyard shift, guestworker, guest worker, hamilton, handicraft, handiwork, hand in glove, hardworking, heartily, heat engine, heat unit, heroine, hertzian, hired help, hokusai, holiday, housekeeping, idleness, idler, impression, inactive, inclusion, indicate, indolence, indolent, inertia, influence, inscription, interfere, interlock, in practice, ironing, ironwork, john herschel, join forces, jolly boat, kennelly, kitchen help, knuckle down, laboring, labouring, lacquerware, latchkey child, lavation, layabout, laziness, leatherwork, light-duty, like thunder, low-powered, manuscript, man hour, masterpiece, mechanize, menial, mess around, minister, modeling, modelling, monastic, mondrian, move around, muck about, muck around, mutilate, needlecraft, needlework, nightingale, obscurely, office block, onsager, openwork, origen, otiose, out-of-school, outlier, outstanding, out of work, overall, overdrive, overlook, overtime, overwork, paperwork, paragraph, passable, pastoral, peer review, peg away, peonage, performer, pet sitting, picture plane, play around, play hooky, plug away, polishing, postponer, presuppose, probation, procedure, producer, puritan, put to work, ragnar frisch, randomness, reassign, recognize, recognized, recreate, redaction, referee, reference, refiner, reliance, require, requirement, richard wright, rock maple, rush hour, saint jerome, seafaring, sea chantey, section gang, selection, serious, silverwork, slavery, slave driver, sloppily, slothfulness, smoothing plane, soldiering, specialise, specialize, specialty, sporting dog, spurious, st. jerome, subcontract, surtitle, tabletop, tacitly, take time off, taskmaster, theretofore, tinbergen, tiredness, tireless, tranquilly, tulip tree, typing pool, unlovely, untiring, utilise, utilize, vacation, vegetate, vocation, volunteer, watt second, weariness, well-ordered, white-collar, wickerwork, workbasket, workfellow, working-class, working class, working day, working dog, working rule, work stoppage, work unit, world premiere, writer's name, writing board
absentee rate, acknowledgement, adaptation, administer, administrate, al-asifa, analecta, apparatus, application, archimedes, architecture, arnold gesell, arthur rimbaud, asthenopia, asynergy, authority, avogadro, babysitting, baby sitting, beast of burden, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beaver away, benjamin shahn, carnot cycle, casually, civilian dress, civilian garb, collaborate, comparably, compendium, complainingly, composition, condensation, conscientious, contributor, cooperate, copyrighted, criticism, cross-reference, cutting angle, d. h. lawrence, day care center, day nursery, deconstruction, dedication, definitive, deliverance, demoralized, dennis gabor, diffidently, dramatic play, dystopia, economy, edvard grieg, efficiency, electioneer, electron volt, ethnologic, eugene wigner, expurgation, fellow worker, foliation, foreign mission, four-stroke engine, frederick soddy, full employment, german shepherd, get together, half-holiday, health profession, heavy-duty, heavy lifting, hieronymus, housewifery, inconsequent, industrious, inspiration, interactive, inundated, inventory, itinerant, itinerate, jan tinbergen, jean luc godard, joseph heller, labor of love, labour of love, lars onsager, leave of absence, lucubration, magnum opus, malingering, martha graham, migratory, monkey around, monotony, nathan bailey, navigation, needleworker, negligently, numerical, office building, old-age pension, operation, original, overburden, overburdened, paid vacation, paradisal, parkinson's law, particular, period piece, peripetia, peripety, person hour, photocopy, piece of music, piece of writing, plagiarism, praetorian, preparation, progress report, propertyless, protagonist, publication, realization, recognition, reconstruction, reference work, relaxation, reproduction, resolution, retrospective, richard leakey, romanticize, scenario, secretary, sheet-metal work, shipboard system, sick benefit, simon legree, sir james dewar, sir john herschel, specialism, stage technician, sugar maple, supertitle, syndication, synergistic, time and a half, tonsorial, tout ensemble, tribute album, tulip poplar, unassuming, undertaking, unfeelingly, ungenerous, unpaid worker, utopia, vacationer, vacationist, variety, virginia woolf, wage-earning, waterpower, water waggon, water wagon, william wordsworth, workaholic, work in progress, yellow poplar

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