(uncountable) Labour, employment, occupation, job.
My work involves a lot of travel.
(uncountable) The place where one is employed.
He hasn’t come
home yet, he’s still at work.
(uncountable) Effort expended on a particular task.
Holding a brick over your head is hard work.
It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
(uncountable, 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.
Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
(uncountable, thermodynamics) A nonthermal First Law
energy in transit between one form or repository and another.
Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
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(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
It is a work of art.
(countable) A fortification.
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
(uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of
events to appear as real.