“of work”

The following 6 entries include the term of work.

piece of work

noun phrase

: a complicated, difficult, or eccentric person

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job of work

: job sense 1a

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a nasty piece of work

noun phrase

: an unkind or unpleasant person

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a stroke of work

noun phrase

: any work at all

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line of work

noun phrase

: the work that a person does regularly in order to earn money : job

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put (someone) out of work

idiom

: to cause (someone) to lose his or her job

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