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(n)
A task.
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The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
The place where someone works.
(Scotland, Northern England) direction; quarter
Direction.
(v)
(transitive) To apply mental or physical effort to (something) in order to shape, form, improve, investigate, solve it, etc.
(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
What something does or is used for.
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
(idiomatic) to put to use
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
A series of events leading to a result or product.
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
(informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
(idiomatic) To tend to produce or result in.
(transitive) To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
All the creative or academic works produced by someone.
(idiomatic, often derogatory) A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws.
As an auxiliary verb:
The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
(uncountable, collective) A substantial or complete corpus of works produced by a artist, composer, or writer.
To move swiftly.
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
(transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
A lid.
(transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
(countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
To grow plants, notably crops.
To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
be employed
(adj)
In a job; working.
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
To retain (someone) as an employee.
One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.
Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
(countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
(of education) That provides a special skill rather than academic knowledge.
Relating to or being a full-time employee.
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period.
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
A person who belongs to a profession.
An owner.
Behaviour; the manner of behaving.
(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
(transitive) To create.
A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
(slang) Business, especially showbusiness.
Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
The act of participating, of taking part in something.
(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
An act of being of assistance to someone.
(uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
To help.
(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
Functioning and ready for use.
(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
In operation; that operates.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
An association of two or more people to conduct a business.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
(computing) A computer program.
(business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
A place or location.
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
To utilize or employ.
An administrative unit of government; office.
The current holder of an office or title; (specifically, Christianity) the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
Official documents or identification, as a passport.
(intransitive) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
(usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
functional, working
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.