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WHOLE WORKS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does whole works mean?
• WHOLE WORKS (noun)
The noun WHOLE WORKS has 1 sense:
1. everything available; usually preceded by 'the'
Familiarity information: WHOLE WORKS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
full treatment; kit and boodle; kit and caboodle; whole caboodle; whole kit; whole kit and boodle; whole kit and caboodle; whole shebang; whole works; works
Context example:
for $10 you get the full treatment
Hypernyms ("whole works" is a kind of...):
entireness; entirety; integrality; totality (the state of being total and complete)
Context examples
When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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