1 labour, toil, effort, drudgery, travail, exertion, industry:

2 employment, business, occupation, vocation, calling, profession, trade, line, métier, career, livelihood, job, post, position, situation:

3 task, function, duty, assignment, charge, responsibility, chore, commission, undertaking, stint:

4 feat, achievement, creation, accomplishment, opus, handiwork, oeuvre, production, composition, piece, master-work, masterpiece, chef-d'oeuvre, magnum opus, output:

5 in work. in production, under way, being done, in the works, being planned, in the planning stage(s):

6 out of work. unemployed, idle, jobless, at liberty, between engagements, available, free, Brit redundant, Colloq Brit on the dole, US on or collecting unemployment:

7 labour, toil, exert oneself, sweat, moil, slave (away), peg away, slog (away):

8 till, plough, farm, cultivate:

9 have a job, hold (down) a post or position, earn a living, be employed:

10 control, manage, manipulate, manoeuvre, wield, handle, operate, use, make use of, utilize, exploit, deal with, bring into play:

11 function, operate, run, go, develop, turn out, Colloq pan out:

12 function, operate, run, go:

13 knead, mould, form, fashion, shape; mix, stir, incorporate:

14 manoeuvre, manipulate, guide:

15 operate, use, employ, put to (good or effective) use, wield, manipulate, ply, apply, exploit:

16 bring about, effect, accomplish, carry out or off, make, produce, achieve, engender, beget, create, do, put through, execute, fulfil, effectuate, implement, realize:

17 work in. find time or space for, include, insert, introduce, fit in, squeeze in, accommodate:

18 work on. wheedle, coax, importune, press, Brit pressurize, US pressure; influence, persuade, act on, prevail upon, induce, dispose, urge:

19 work out.

(a) exercise, do callisthenics, do aerobics, warm up, do setting-up exercises, do (one's) daily dozen, jog, lift weights, train, drill:

(b) Often, work out at or to. equal, total (up to), result in, amount to, come to:

(c) clear up, resolve, solve, Slang Brit and New Zealand suss out:

(d) evolve, develop, succeed, prosper, come out all right, prove satisfactory, go well, be effective, Colloq pan out:

(e) formulate, work up, contrive, draw up, detail, plan, develop, devise, put together, elaborate, expand, enlarge (on):

20 work up.

(a) excite, make excited, agitate, inflame, enkindle, arouse, rouse, stir, move, animate, incite, spur, Colloq fire (up), get (someone) (all) steamed or hopped or het up:

(b) prepare, (make or get) ready, whip into shape, develop, come up with, write up, put together, produce, turn out:

(c) advance, ascend, rise, move up or ahead or on:

(d) See 19 (e), above.

labourer, working man or woman, workman, hand, employee, artisan, craftsman, tradesman, white-collar worker, blue-collar worker, proletarian, breadwinner, wage-earner: