n (uncountable) Employment.
n labour, occupation, job.
n The place where one is employed.
n (by extension) One's employer.
n (dated) A factory; a works.
n (uncountable) Effort.
n effort expended on a particular task.
n Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
n Something on which effort is expended.
n (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
n (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
n Product; the result of effort.
n (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
n (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
n (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
n (countable) A fortification.
n (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
n (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
n (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
v (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
v Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
v Followed by as. Said of one's job title
v Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
v Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
v (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;
v (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
v (transitive) To embroider with thread.
v (transitive) To set into action.
v (transitive) To cause to ferment.
v (intransitive) To ferment.
v (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
v (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
v (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
v (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
v (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
v (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
v (transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
v (transitive) To cause to work.
v (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
v (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
v (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
v (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
v (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
v (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
v (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
n A surname.