Works

/wɜːks/

noun

  1. (heading) Employment.

  2. (heading) Effort.

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

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

verb

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

    He’s working in a bar.

  2. To effect by gradual degrees.

    he worked his way through the crowd

  3. To embroider with thread.

noun

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

    A stray wrench can really gum up the works.

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

    The steel works almost fills the valley.

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

    I'll have a Behemoth Burger with the works.

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