Word

do work, v.
freq. cnt. 1

be employed
<verb.social> freq. cnt.: 63 freq. cnt.: 62 freq. cnt.: 1

do work work

sample sentences

"Is your husband working again?"
"My wife never worked"
"Do you want to work after the age of 60?"
"She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"
"She works as a waitress to put herself through college"

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

work worker

semantic pointers

hyponym

serve bank take, fill, occupy drive tinker serve fink, scab, rat, blackleg toil, labor, grind, labour, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil farm moonlight job man break one's back, slave, buckle down, knuckle down subcontract turn a trick freelance

verb group

work, put to work work work