DO WORK
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)
Meaning:
Be employed
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
do work; work
Context examples:
Is your husband working again? / My wife never worked / Do you want to work after the age of 60? / She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money / She works as a waitress to put herself through college
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "do work"):
serve (do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function)
turn a trick (have a customer, of a prostitute)
subcontract (work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract)
free-lance (work on a free lance basis)
break one's back; buckle down; knuckle down; slave (work very hard, like a slave)
man (take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place)
job (work occasionally)
moonlight (work a second job, usually after hours)
farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)
dig; drudge; fag; grind; labor; labour; moil; toil; travail (work hard)
blackleg; fink; rat; scab (take the place of work of someone on strike)
serve (do military service)
tinker (work as a tinker or tinkerer)
drive (work as a driver)
fill; take (assume, as of positions or roles)
bank (be in the banking business)
freelance (work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
