Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Indoor work; work done inside the home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
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verb
To work in or into.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To work or operate within.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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History
From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).
From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken (“to affect, orient”), German einwirken (“to influence, impinge”).
