Definitions for piece of work
piece of work

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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"

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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).

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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.

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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. John Mayer:

   I was thinking about reputation, not the album, but it's fine. It's a fine piece of work.

2. William Shakespeare:

   What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god

3. Charles Franklin Kettering, (1876-1958):

   Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

4. Chris Harrison:

   This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet.

5. Charles Baudelaire:

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

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=piece of work
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Piece_of_Work
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_of_Work
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com