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line of work

n. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line]

Usage examples of "line of work".

As a rule, the talents and skills required for that line of work fit a military man about as well as gloves would fit a horse.

He was well aware of how dangerous personal fury could be in his line of work, but this time his control had frayed, and he knew it.

There are very few fixed assumptions in my line of work, but one of them is that once you have written a word, it is written, and cannot be unwritten.

It's an old saying for those in my line of work that you don't befoul your own sandbox.

So, being none of those three, the mission simply wasn't in her line of work.

Of course he would always feel a warm gratitude for her trusting kindness, but when he no longer owed her money he could choose his own line of work.

According to the rumors Higgins had picked up, she favored a hands-on style, very different from the remote spymaster approach, with multiple layers of cutouts, others in her line of work preferred.

But his normal line of work didn't involve bodies leaking on his front lawn.

People in their line of work became dangerous when they knew too much .