work
/wɝk/ nom A1En français : travail, ^) œuvre, ^) création, œuvre
- Labour, occupation, job. · My work involves a lot of travel.
- The place where one is employed. · He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
- One's employer. · I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
- A factory; a works.
- Effort expended on a particular task. · Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. · 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.
- Something on which effort is expended. · There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
- Cosmetic surgery. · has had a lot of work done
Pluriel works
Verbes à particule et expressions
- work around Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, ...
- work away To persist in working diligently at a subject or target.
- work in To find time or space for, amid other things.
- work off To lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the ...
- work on To apply mental or physical effort to (something) in orde...
- work out calculer, élaborer, s'entraîner
- work over To improve a prototype, or first draft.
- work through Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, ...
- work up To raise; to excite; to stir up.
Dans la bibliothèque
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.
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 Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.
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.
Autres résultats
- work opérer, se travailler, marcher A1
- work around Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- work away To persist in working diligently at a subject o...
- work in To find time or space for, amid other things.
- work off To lose
- work on To apply mental or physical effort to
- work out calculer, élaborer, s'entraîner
- work over To improve a prototype, or first draft.
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