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work

/wɝk/ nom A1

En français : travail, ^) œuvre, ^) création, œuvre

  1. Labour, occupation, job. (countable, uncountable) · My work involves a lot of travel.
  2. The place where one is employed. (countable, uncountable) · He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  3. One's employer. (countable, uncountable) · I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  4. A factory; a works. (countable, dated, uncountable)
  5. Effort expended on a particular task. (countable, uncountable) · Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  6. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. (countable, uncountable) · We know what we must do. Let's go to work.· We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
  7. Something on which effort is expended. (countable, uncountable) · There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
  8. Cosmetic surgery. (countable, uncountable) · has had a lot of work done

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It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman’s long pole and helped push the raft to the land.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 46 · B2
But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 43 · B2
The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 41 · B2
She, on her part, promised to marry me as soon as I could earn enough money to build a better house for her; so I set to work harder than ever.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 29 · B2

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