DO WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does do work mean? 

• DO WORK (verb)
  The verb DO WORK has 1 sense:

1. be employed

  Familiarity information: DO WORK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DO WORK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be employed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

do work; work

Context example:

She works as a waitress to put herself through college

Verb group:

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

put to work; work (cause to work)

work (operate in a certain place, area, or specialty)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "do work"):

serve (do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function)

bank (be in the banking business)

fill; occupy; take (assume, as of positions or roles)

drive (work as a driver)

tinker (work as a tinker or tinkerer)

serve (do military service)

blackleg; fink; rat; scab (take the place of work of someone on strike)

dig; drudge; fag; grind; labor; labour; moil; toil; travail (work hard)

farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)

moonlight (work a second job, usually after hours)

job (work occasionally)

man (take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place)

break one's back; buckle down; knuckle down; slave (work very hard, like a slave)

subcontract (work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract)

turn a trick (have a customer, of a prostitute)

freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The capacity of a physical system to do work.

(Energy, NCI Thesaurus)

The girls are used to such things, and I want my lunch to be proper and elegant, though I do work for my living.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The labor force available to do work on a project

(Manpower, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about how difficult problems have made it for an individual to do work, take care of things at home, or get along with other people.

(How Difficult have Problems Made it to do Work, Take Care of Things at Home, or Get Along with other People, NCI Thesaurus)

The process by which non-govt. companies obtain and do work for the Federal government

(Contracting, NCI Thesaurus)

“I have worked, I do work,” I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)