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at work
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. on the job; "had been at work for over an hour before her boss arrived" [syn: at work(p) ] having influence or producing an effect; "many emotional determinants at work"; "an operant conscience" [syn: at work(p) , operant ]
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prep.phr. 1 At one's workplace. 2 During customary work time. 3 (context idiomatic English) working, in the process of doing work.
Usage examples of at work.
I can do to keep Indian crews at work from sunrise to within an hour of sunset, and they always insist on being in camp before dark.
A scene of orderly confusion immediately followed, as camp equipage of every description was taken from the boats and carried to the place where axemen were already at work clearing away underbrush or cutting wood for the fires.
In the high-roofed, brightly lit growing-chamber, warm and humid, the women were at work plucking the unwanted flowers from the greenleaf plants and pruning the tendrils of the velvetberry vines.
From the far side of the room came the sounds of Konya hard at work once more on the Loom.
Merchants, poets, philosophers, sages, masters of the sciences and the wisdoms: they all were hard at work, recording, analyzing, comprehending, at every moment of the day and the night.
Hresh saw them hard at work in every district of the city, those massive dome-headed, jointed-legged metal beings.
Three times he tried to reach the underground cache in the place where he had seen the repair-machines at work, but each time he spied Beng sentries nearby, and could not get close.
Salaman, Konya, and Lakkamai already were hard at work, poking and prodding with long spears.
Hresh saw one of the repair machines at work on another of its own that stood motionless.
Which is to say that the forces at work seem ever more impersonal, more disconnected from individual human activity, more autonomous.