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Princeton's WordNet

  1. work-inverb

    occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory

  2. work inverb

    add by mixing or blending on or attaching

    "work in the butter and the dough will get the right consistency"; "In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words"

Wikipedia

  1. work in

    A work-in is a form of direct action under which workers whose jobs are under threat resolve to remain in their place of employment and to continue producing, without pay. Their intention is usually to show that their place of work still has long-term viability or that it can be effectively self-managed by the workers.

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  1. work in

    Work in physics refers to the transfer of energy from one object to another through force. It is measured as a product of the force applied on an object and the displacement of the object due to this force in the direction of the force. The standard unit for work in the International System of Units (SI) is the joule (J). It can be positive, negative, or zero depending on the direction of force and displacement.

Editors Contribution

  1. work in

    Action form of the word work.

    The work in the farm tearooms daily together with love and passion for people, sharing and the collective good of the community.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 29, 2021  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of work in in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of work in in a Sentence

  1. Asghar Farhadi:

    It's wonderful that he has continued his work in such adversity, it's a very strange feeling for me to be able to be here but not him. It's something I have difficulty living with.

  2. Hillary Clinton:

    It is a funny time we live in, the kind of public opinion shifts and people say,' Oh, so noble, she stayed in her marriage' to' Oh, it is so incomprehensible that she stayed in her marriage,' you know that there are forces of work in a society that people are working through themselves.

  3. Magnus Ranstorp:

    There is a much sharper polarization of society, the people carrying out the violence work in small groups but they all join up and know what direction they are traveling in. They are very clear on the goal. The caliphate provides that common purpose, that unity, that momentum.

  4. Jack Graham:

    We want to stay in the system, we want to work in the system. We want to support our government. We want to obey its laws.

  5. Michael Kugelman:

    For all the improvements that Afghan troops have made in recent years, the country's fighting forces remain a major work in progress, and when your country faces an insurgency capable of seizing a big city,' work in progress' is not good enough, and is, in fact, quite dangerous.

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