Word Finder - works

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(heading) Employment.

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(heading) Effort.

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Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

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We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.

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(heading) Product; the result of effort.

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The staging of events to appear as real.

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Ore before it is dressed.

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The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

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Tell me you're using clean works at least.

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To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

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He’s working in a bar.

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To effect by gradual degrees.

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he worked his way through the crowd

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To embroider with thread.

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To set into action.

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He worked the levers.

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To cause to ferment.

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To ferment.

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To exhaust, by working.

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The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.

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To shape, form, or improve a material.

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He used pliers to work the wire into shape.

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To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

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she works the night clubs

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To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

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To provoke or excite; to influence.

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The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.

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To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

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She knows how to work the system.

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To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

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I cannot work a miracle.

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To cause to work.

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He is working his servants hard.

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To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

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he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?;  he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work;  my plan didn’t work

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To influence.

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They worked on her to join the group.

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To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.

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To move in an agitated manner.

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A ship works in a heavy sea.

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To behave in a certain way when handled

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this dough does not work easily;  the soft metal works well

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(with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

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To hurt; to ache.

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A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.

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A stray wrench can really gum up the works.

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A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.

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The steel works almost fills the valley.

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(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

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I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.

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(with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).