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piece of work

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. work, piece of worknoun

    a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing

    "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"

Wiktionary

  1. piece of worknoun

    A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.

  2. piece of worknoun

    A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws (e.g. a nasty piece of work).

Wikipedia

  1. piece of work

    "What a piece of work is a man!" is a phrase within a monologue by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition.

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  1. piece of work

    A piece of work generally refers to a specific task, assignment, or a project that requires effort and time to complete. It can also refer to an artifact, a creative work like a book, painting, or a piece of music. In informal usage, it can describe a complicated, difficult, or eccentric person. The context usually determines the exact meaning.

Editors Contribution

  1. piece of work

    A specific element of work to action.

    The cost of the job is for a specific piece of work the social enterprise is providing.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 21, 2021  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of piece of work in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of piece of work in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of piece of work in a Sentence

  1. Billy Madison:

    Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too.

  2. Edward Watson as Sargent:

    I think it's interesting that ... everybody involved is sort of victims of the piece of work, he is painting something which he thought was going to be great, she is posing for something which she thought would be the perfect portrait of her. So the interesting thing is what that work did to everybody.

  3. Leonard Cohen:

    Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

  4. Ry Cooder:

    You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

  5. Charles Baudelaire:

    There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.


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