(uncountable) A noun "work" represents employment, labor, occupation, job, the place where one is employed, and one's employer.
(uncountable) A noun "work" represents effort expended on a task, sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result, something on which effort is expended, a measure of energy expended in moving an object, and a measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
A product or result of effort, often in the form of a particular manner of production, something produced using a specified material or tool, a literary, artistic, or intellectual production, or a fortification.
(uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
(mining) Ore before it is dressed.
(slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
(intransitive) To perform a specific task using physical or mental abilities, either in one's workplace or trade, as a job title, for a company or individual who employs, or with fellow employees, instruments, or clients.
(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;
(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
(transitive) To embroider with thread.
(transitive) To set into action.
(transitive) To cause to ferment.
(intransitive) To ferment.
(transitive) To exhaust, by working.
(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
(transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
(transitive, law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
(transitive) To cause to work.
(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
(intransitive, figurative) To influence.
(intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
(intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
(ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
(slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.