yakka
hustle
job
graft
beaver
slave
labour
sweat
roll up one's sleeves
work like a mule
buckle to
work like a horse
swot
workless
slug away
ergo-
w
muck in
-ergy
⠐⠺
ply
set to work
sweat one's guts out
beaver away
slave away
moil
work like a dog
sweat blood
work like a Trojan
tool
chapter
bust one's ass
taskwork
char
do work
go ham
work
bust a nut
toil
cark
bust a gut
bework
bust one's balls
at work
get on to
peg away
go to work
knuckle down
get 'er done
bust one's hump
be on days
in a flap
dig in
employed
bat
paint the wagon
burn the candle at both ends
slam
toil and moil
act
belabor
commuter
belabour
dig
travail
do
bellhop
ergocentric
drudge
grind
fag
hire
ergotropism
work time
labor
interwork
import
nose to the grindstone
business day
go
workmate
employable
employ
head down, bum up
slammed
cover ground
turn
occupational therapy
crank the handle
keep up
raddle
workless
employed
ergocentric
employable
slammed
nose to the grindstone
head down, bum up
yakka
swot
w
sweat
taskwork
bat
commuter
ergotropism
work time
business day
workmate
turn
occupational therapy
yakka
hustle
job
graft
beaver
slave
labour
sweat
roll up one's sleeves
work like a mule
buckle to
work like a horse
slug away
muck in
ply
set to work
sweat one's guts out
beaver away
slave away
moil
work like a dog
sweat blood
work like a Trojan
tool
chapter
bust one's ass
char
do work
go ham
work
bust a nut
toil
cark
bust a gut
bework
bust one's balls
get on to
peg away
go to work
knuckle down
get 'er done
bust one's hump
be on days
dig in
paint the wagon
burn the candle at both ends
slam
toil and moil
act
belabor
belabour
dig
travail
do
bellhop
drudge
grind
fag
hire
labor
interwork
import
go
employ
cover ground
crank the handle
keep up
raddle
verb
- To work.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To rush or hurry.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
verb
- To work as a jobber.
- To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- To take the loss.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
noun
- A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- A sex act.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- A task.
- A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- Plastic surgery.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
verb
- To work hard.
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
verb
- To work hard.
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
noun
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- The fur of the beaver.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A beard or a bearded person.
- A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
verb
- To work hard.
- To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- To place a device under the control of another.
noun
- A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
- An abject person.
- A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
verb
- To toil, to work.
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
noun
- Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- The act of a mother giving birth.
- Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- A group of moles.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
verb
- To work hard.
- To stress out.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To emit sweat.
- To worry about (something).
- To cause to perspire.
- To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- To emit moisture.
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To worry.
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
noun
- Hard work; toil.
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- An extremely competitive player.
- The sweating sickness.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
verb
prefix
suffix
symbol
verb
- To work at (something) diligently.
- To press upon; to urge persistently.
- To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- To travel over (a route) regularly.
- To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
noun
verb
verb
verb
noun
- The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- A spot; a defilement.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
verb
verb
verb
- To work very hard.
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
- To take to task.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- To divide into chapters.
noun
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A chapter house
- A bishop's council.
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
verb
verb
- be employed
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- provoke or excite
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- A stroke of work.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- Rate of motion; speed.
- Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A rough walking stick.
- The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- Shale or bituminous shale.
- An old woman.
verb
verb
verb
- To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To make a slam bid.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
noun
- An insult.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A slambook.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- A slam dunk.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
verb
- To do something.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To perform a theatrical role.
- To play (a role).
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To feign.
- To have an effect (on).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
noun
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A display of behaviour.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- Any organized activity.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- Something done, a deed.
verb
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To have as one's job.
- To suffice.
- To finish.
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- To have (as an effect).
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- To take drugs.
- To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To cook.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To make or provide.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Let’s do New York also.
- To kill.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To perform; to execute.
- To cheat or swindle.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- A homicide.
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- Something that can or should be done.
num
verb
- work hard
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- created by grinding
- shape or form by grinding
noun
verb
- To accept employment.
- To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- To accomplish by paying for services.
- To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
noun
verb
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
noun
noun
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
verb
- To perform a process; to do some work.
- 2006, Rebecca Jordan and Kirsty Weir, In Good Company: The essential business start-up guide for women, A & C Black, page 229
- 2010, Robert Mnookin, Bargaining with the Devil: When the Negotiate, When to Fight, Simon & Schuster, page 32-33
- 2009, Nick Gifford, Information Security: Managing the Legal Risks, CCH Australia
- 2008, Brad Thor, The Last Patriot, Atria Books
verb
- To do work in a slovenly way.
- To interweave or twist together.
- To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
noun
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A red ochre.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
English words for 'to work'
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