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AT WORK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the job
Example:
had been at work for over an hour before her boss arrived
Classified under:
Similar:
busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)
Context examples:
Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Does your chest problem make you breathless when you do things at work?
(AQ20 - Chest Problem Make You Breathless at Work, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which a person responds to a stressful event (such as an illness, job loss, or divorce) with extreme emotions and actions that cause problems at work and home.
(Adjustment disorder, NCI Dictionary)
It can also cause problems at home, at work and with friends.
(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
You might use one at home or at work, or you may need one in a hospital.
(Medical Device Safety, Food and Drug Administration)
Occupational health problems occur at work or because of the kind of work you do.
(Occupational Health, NIH)
And now both mangonels were at work from the galleys, but so covered and protected that, save at the moment of discharge, no glimpse could be caught of them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Long John was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself in good advice, and as for example no man could have shown a better.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
To better understand the mechanisms at work, the team also performed experiments in mice.
(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)
A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms at work in the disease may lead to more effective approaches to treatment.
(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)
