What is "put to work"

Usage examples of "put to work".

Bonuses are being paid for sterility, national consciousness and the level of perception have been heightened, divorces are down (although extremely easy to obtain when necessary) and seven hitherto unknown elements, predicted on our charts, have been put to work in foundation materials, proctoscopy, and automotive engineering.

Vittori Santorini understood exactly how fanatical devotion to a cause could be harnessed and put to work.

They were put to work with a thousand other slaves, and they toiled naked all day in the sun.

Cowards and physical weaklings, though even they could be put to work in the garrison kitchens or doing maintenance of some kind if they confessed their weakness to the Commander.

And for what other reason had intelligence been created and certain specimens salvaged and put to work, but to aid in that great search?