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# work

«work» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do a job, often to earn money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (work, works, worked, working); noun (work; works)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To work means to do a job, often to earn money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m1)

2) To work means to try hard to do or learn something: «work on your spelling». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m2)

3) Work is the place where you have a job: «Dad is at work». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m3)

4) A machine works when it does its job and is not broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m4)

5) A plan works when it is a success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m5)

6) A work is something made, like a work of art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: hours worked, pay per hour, work done per day; «show your work» (write your steps). In everyday life: grown-ups go to work, homework, schoolwork, group work, teamwork. In science: work is done when a force moves something. Phrases: «at work», «work out» (solve, or exercise), «work hard», «homework», «work together», «out of work».

### examples

- She works 8 hours a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x1)
- He earns 12 dollars for each hour of work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x2)
- How much does he earn for 5 days of work? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x3)
- They worked for 3 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x4)
- Mum goes to work by train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x5)
- Can you work out the answer in your head? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x6)
- The TV doesn't work anymore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x7)
- Good teamwork helped us finish the model. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x8)
- Show your work so the teacher can follow your steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x9)
- We must get to work swiftly.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/#x10)

### note

As a noun «work» is uncountable: «a lot of work», not «a work» (but «a work of art»). «Homework» has no plural. Maths: pay = hours × rate; hours = pay ÷ rate. Trap: «show your work» means write the steps, no number; «work out» means solve.

### In the corpora

- [When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/18/)
- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [Overtime is working extra hours beyond the normal ones; sometimes it is paid at a higher rate, sometimes not paid at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/8/)
- [Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/12/)
- [At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «work» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/work/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.