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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, in a general context, refers to the process of gradually making adjustments or improvements on an ongoing project or task. It also could mean gradually integrating or incorporating a certain factor, feature, or element into an existing system, method, or process. This term is often used in various professional fields such as production, business, technology, arts, etc., and its meaning could slightly vary depending on the context it's being used in.

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  1. Work-in

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

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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. Wu Wei:

    Going to class feels like going to work in a factory.

  2. Bill Carrick:

    Trump has tried to make a political case that might work in a whole bunch of other states by confronting California, but it doesn't work in California, we know that Democrats are on popular side of those issues in California.

  3. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

    The talk is about people who arrived in Russia with a purpose of either to work in Russia or to visit relatives, they had not declared their (true) purpose of visit as transit to Norway.

  4. Mark Zuckerberg:

    We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

  5. D. H. Lawrence:

    For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

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