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Meaning of works
noun
- (heading) Employment.
- (heading) Effort.
- Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. Example: We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
- (heading) Product; the result of effort.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
verb
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Example: He’s working in a bar.
- To effect by gradual degrees. Example: he worked his way through the crowd
- To embroider with thread.
- To set into action. Example: He worked the levers.
- To cause to ferment.
noun
- A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens. Example: A stray wrench can really gum up the works.
- A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings. Example: The steel works almost fills the valley.
- (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food. Example: I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.
- (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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