Crossword-Solution: WORK 4 letters, 163 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Work	n.	Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Work	n.	The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
Work	n.	That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
Work	n.	Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
Work	n.	Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
Work	n.	The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
Work	n.	Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
Work	n.	The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
Work	n.	Ore before it is dressed.
Work	n.	Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
Work	n.	To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
Work	n.	Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
Work	n.	Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
Work	n.	To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
Work	n.	To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
Work	n.	To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
Work	n.	To ferment, as a liquid.
Work	n.	To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
Work	v. t.	To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
Work	v. t.	To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
Work	v. t.	To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
Work	v. t.	To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
Work	v. t.	To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Work	v. t.	To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
Work	v. t.	To cause to ferment, as liquor.

We have 163 clues for the answer “WORK”

Clue	Answers
"The office"	1 answer
"The refuge of people who have nothing better to do," according to Oscar Wilde	1 answer
"What a piece of ___ is a man!"	1 answer
"___ Without Hope": Coleridge	1 answer
*Function as promised	1 answer
2016 Rihanna hit	1 answer
Come out all right	1 answer
Cry made while cracking a whip, maybe	1 answer
Do a shift	1 answer
Dulling influence for Jack	1 answer
End of a Ross Thatcher quote	1 answer
Ending for "right to" or "put to"	1 answer
Every man's right.	1 answer
Forms to process	1 answer
Function properly	1 answer
Grunt ___ (thankless tasks)	1 answer
Heavy exertion	1 answer
Idler's anathema	1 answer
Join the rat race	1 answer
Lead-in for -aholic	1 answer
Need after being canned	1 answer
Nine-to-five destination	1 answer
Nine-to-five routine, and hint to this puzzle's theme	1 answer
Operate Properly	1 answer
Operate effectively	1 answer
Opposite of play	1 answer
Opus or employment	1 answer
Part of W.P.A.	1 answer
Productive activity	1 answer
Prove effective	1 answer
Put in one's eight hours	1 answer
Run properly	1 answer
Résumé sender's goal	1 answer
Solve, as a puzzle	1 answer
Something cited in a citation	1 answer
Something to whistle at	1 answer
Stop __ order: bad news on a construction site	1 answer
The end of art?	1 answer
Toil at it	1 answer
Toil or moil.	1 answer
What may be hard to find in depressions	1 answer
Word with horse or house	1 answer
Word with make or piece	1 answer
You better do this, bitch!	1 answer
Toil or employment task	1 answer
arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion	1 answer
every man s right	1 answer
move into or onto	1 answer
physical or mental effort directed to making or doing something	1 answer
properly Operate	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETEAR

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greedy person

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Sentences with WORK (5)

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975

The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The Foundation makes no representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any country other than the United States.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

For her daughter long and loudly Wailed and wept the sad Nokomis; “Oh that I were dead!” she murmured, “Oh that I were dead, as thou art! No more work, and no more weeping, Wahonowin! Wahonowin!” By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Henceforth his might we know, and know our own So as not either to provoke, or dread New warr, provok’t; our better part remains To work in close design, by fraud or guile What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Quotes with WORK (3)

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in…

Bob Marley

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

Nicholas Sparks The Notebook

Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet. To make all your friends feelthat there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the pastand pre…

Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).