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Employment.

Labour, occupation, job.

The place where one is employed.

(by extension) One's employer.

(dated) A factory; a works.

Effort.

Effort expended on a particular task.

Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

Something on which effort is expended.

(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.

(more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.

Product; the result of effort.

(in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.

(in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.

A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.

A fortification.

(professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.

(mining) Ore before it is dressed.

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

(LGBT slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.

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

Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) (:in/:at).

Said of one's job title (:as).

Said of a company or individual who employs (:for).

General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients (:with).

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

To work or operate in, through{{,}} or by means of.

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

To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way{{,}} or happen.

To set into action.

(exhaust) To exhaust, by working.

To shape, form, or improve a material.

To provoke or excite; to influence.

To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

(law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

To force to work.

To move or progress slowly or with difficulty.

To move or progress slowly (:one's way).

To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.

To embroider with thread.

To ferment.

To cause to ferment.

(figuratively) To influence.

To move in an agitated manner.

To behave in a certain way when handled

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

To hurt; to ache.

To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.