noun
- exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- productive or operative activity.
- employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one’s livelihood: to look for work.
- one’s place of employment: Don’t phone him at work.
- something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking: The students finished their work in class.
- materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work.
- the result of exertion, labor, or activity; a deed or performance.
- a product of exertion, labor, or activity: musical works.
- Often works. an engineering structure, as a building or bridge.
- a building, wall, trench, or the like, constructed or made as a means of fortification.
- works,
- (used with a singular or plural verb)a place or establishment for manufacturing (often used in combination): ironworks.
- the working parts of a machine: the works of a watch.
- Theology.righteous deeds.
- Physics. force times the distance through which it acts; specifically, the transference of energy equal to the product of the component of a force that acts in the direction of the motion of the point of application of the force and the distance through which the point of application moves.
- the works, Informal.
- everything; all related items or matters: a hamburger with the works.
- harsh or cruel treatment: to give someone the works.