Labor

verb

1. To perform work or fulfill duties regularly for wages or salary

   "works in publishing"

2. To perform or carry through a task requiring sustained effort or continuous repeated operations

   "worked all day at cleaning the house"

3. To exert oneself physically or mentally especially in sustained effort for a purpose or under compulsion or necessity

   "… head to the mountains, work a little, play a lot, and hope for snow."

4. To function or operate according to plan or design

   "The hinges work better with oil."

5. To produce a desired effect or result succeed

   "The medicine seemed to be working."

6. To exert an influence or tendency
7. To make way slowly and with difficulty move or progress laboriously

   "worked up to the presidency"

8. To sail to windward
9. To move slightly in relation to another part
10. To get into a specified condition by slow or imperceptible movements

    "The clog worked out of the pipe."

11. To be in agitation or restless motion
12. Ferment
13. To permit of being worked} {bcreact in a specified way to being worked

    "This wood works easily."

14. To set or keep in motion, operation, or activity cause to operate or produce

    "a pump worked by hand"

15. To bring to pass effect

    "I can't work miracles."

16. To solve (a problem) by reasoning or calculation
17. To cause to toil or labor

    "worked their horses nearly to death"

18. To make use of exploit

    "worked their charm and looks to get their way"

19. To control or guide the operation of

    "All of the yard switches are worked from a central tower."

20. To carry on an operation or perform a job through, at, in, or along

    "The salesman worked both sides of the street."

21. To greet and talk with in a friendly way in order to ingratiate oneself or achieve a purpose

    "worked the room"

22. To pay for or achieve with labor or service

    "worked my way through college"

23. To prepare for use by stirring or kneading

    "worked the putty into the right consistency"

24. To bring into a desired form by a gradual process of cutting, hammering, scraping, pressing, or stretching

    "work cold steel"

25. To fashion or create a useful or desired product by expending labor or exertion on forge, shape

    "work flint into tools"

26. To make or decorate with needlework
27. To get (oneself or an object) into or out of a condition or position by gradual stages

    "patiently working the boulder out of the hole"

28. Contrive, arrange

    "We can work it so that you can take your vacation."

29. Excite, provoke

    "worked myself into a rage"

30. To practice trickery or cajolery on for some end

    "worked the management for a free ticket"

noun

1. Activity that a person engages in regularly to earn a livelihood

   "people looking for work"

2. A specific task, duty, function, or assignment often being a part or phase of some larger activity

   "A large part of the work is responding to e-mails."

3. Sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective or result

   "Getting my PhD took a lot of work, but it was worth it."

4. One's place of employment

   "I didn't go to work yesterday because I was sick."

5. Something produced or accomplished by effort, exertion, or exercise of skill

   "This book is the work of many hands."

6. Something produced by the exercise of creative talent or expenditure of creative effort artistic production

   "an early work by a major writer"

7. Something that results from a particular manner or method of working, operating, or devising

   "careful investigative work"

8. Something that results from the use or fashioning of a particular material

   "collected fine porcelain work in many styles"

9. Structures in engineering (such as docks, bridges, or embankments) or mining (such as shafts or tunnels)

   "works from the 19th century"

10. A fortified structure (such as a fort, earthen barricade, or trench)
11. A place where industrial labor is carried on plant, factory

    "got a job at a cement/lead works"

12. The working or moving parts of a mechanism

    "the works of a clock"

13. Everything possessed, available, or belonging

    "They ordered a pizza with the works."

14. Subjection to drastic treatment all possible abuse
15. The transference of energy that is produced by the movement of the point of application of a force and is measured by multiplying the magnitude of the force by the amount of displacement of its point of application along the line of movement
16. Energy expended by natural phenomena
17. The result of such energy

    "sand dunes are the work of sea and wind"

18. Effective operation effect, result

    "wait for time to do its healing work"

19. Manner of working workmanship, execution

    "Better tools make for better work."

20. Performance of moral or religious acts

    "salvation by works"

21. The material or piece of material that is operated upon at any stage in the process of manufacture

    "The work was put under the drop hammer and quickly pounded into shape for the next operation."

adjective

1. Suitable or styled for wear while working

   "work clothes"

2. Used for work

   "a clean work surface"

3. Involving or engaged in work

   "a work crew"

noun

1. A plan or method to circumvent a problem (as in computer software) without eliminating it

noun

1. Prison camp
2. A short-term group project in which individuals from one or more religious organizations volunteer their labor

noun

1. A belief in work as a moral good a set of values centered on the importance of doing work and reflected especially in a desire or determination to work hard

noun

1. A farm on which persons guilty of minor law violations are confined

verb

1. To insert or cause to penetrate by repeated or continued effort
2. To interpose or insinuate gradually or unobtrusively

   "worked in a few topical jokes"

noun phrase

1. A product of one of the fine arts
2. Something giving high aesthetic satisfaction to the viewer or listener