AT WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at work mean? 

• AT WORK (adjective)
  The adjective AT WORK has 1 sense:

1. on the job

  Familiarity information: AT WORK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT WORK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On the job

Context example:

had been at work for over an hour before her boss arrived

Similar:

busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)

 Context examples 

You would be most likely to find love at a party or other leisure setting, not at work or an industry event or through a dating app or website.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The professor then desired me “to observe; for he was going to set his engine at work.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the far corner was a smithy, where a grimy lad was at work.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All Sunday I was kept hard at work, and yet by Monday I had only got as far as H.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In contrast to mania, these symptoms do not cause significant impairment of the individual's productivity at work, or social and family relationships.

(Hypomania, NCI Thesaurus)

Injuries can happen at work or play, indoors or outdoors, driving a car, or walking across the street.

(Injuries, NIH)

It's a major reason people miss days at work or school or visit the doctor.

(Headache, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)