Work ___ (5)
'work' is the definition.
(an opus is an artistic work)
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(Other definitions for opus that I've seen before include "Musical piece" , "Showing creative skill" , "Composer's catalogue number" , "Work (mus.)" , "Artistic work" .)
'work' is the definition.
(toiling is a kind of working)
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(Other definitions for toil that I've seen before include "Work hard and long" , "Hard physical work" , "Work really hard" , "Work hard, labour" , "Work incessantly" .)
'work' is the definition.
(synonyms)
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(Other definitions for employment that I've seen before include "Utilization" , "The utilisation of something" , "A person's work or profession" , "Paid work" .)
'work' is the definition.
(synonyms)
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(Other definitions for operate that I've seen before include "Control, run, a machine say" , "Work - perform surgery" , "Make to work" , "Perform surgery or run a machine" , "Cause to function" .)
'work' is the definition.
(labour is a kind of work)
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(Other definitions for labour that I've seen before include "Painful time" , "Workforce" , "End of term" , "unnecessarily elaborate" , "Donkey-work" .)
'work' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
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(Other definitions for trade that I've seen before include "Give and receive (blows)" , "Customers" , "Deal commercially" , "Commercial exchange of goods and services" , "A skilled craft to earn living" .)
'work' is the definition.
(laboring is a kind of working)
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(Other definitions for ethic that I've seen before include "Moral practice" , "System of rules of behaviour" , "Principles accepted by a social group" , "Moral principle" , "System of principles" .)
'work' is the definition.
(both can mean to operate something)
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(Other definitions for run that I've seen before include "Move at speed" , "Jog; manage" , "Manage, operate" , "Possibly an extra" , "work" .)
'work' is the definition.
(to ply a trade is to work at it)
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(Other definitions for ply that I've seen before include "Strand, of wool or wood, say" , "Fold; thickness" , "Laminate thickness" , "Thickness of yarn and wood" , "'Persist in offering, liquor say (3)'" .)