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at work en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, work. At one's workplace.
    • Remember to call Marsha at work. 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    • They've got a new photocopier at work.
    • He's not home at the moment: he's at work.
  2. Working, in the process of doing work.
    • Don't interrupt me while I'm at work on my housing project.
    • This was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work. 2021 September 8, Phil McNulty, “Poland 1-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
    • In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work. 1958 April 14, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:
  3. (figuratively) At play, in action.
    • These three [August Bebel, Helen Stoecker, and Magnus Hirschfeld] can be taken to typify some of the currents at work before the Nazis came to power in 1933. 1986 February 15, Denis M. Sweet, “A Sobering History from Weimar to the Ovens”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page B3:

Relateds

on the job · workplace

Synonyms

working · at work

Translations (24)

da i arbejde (in the process of doing work) · fr au travail (at one's workplace) · de bei der Arbeit (at one's workplace) · es en el trabajo (at one's workplace) · nl aan het werk (in the process of doing work) · fr à l'œuvre (at play, in action) · fa سر کار (at one's workplace) · ang on weorce (at one's workplace) · de am Werk (in the process of doing work) · it al lavoro (at one's workplace) · nb i arbeid (in the process of doing work) · ru на рабо́те (at one's workplace) · nl aan de slag (in the process of doing work) · ru в де́йствии (at play, in action) · ang on weorce (in the process of doing work) · fr au travail (in the process of doing work) · fr à pied d’œuvre (at one's workplace) · it sul lavoro (at one's workplace) · es de obras (in the process of doing work) · fi toiminnassa (at play, in action) · fi töissä (at one's workplace) · ru за рабо́той (in the process of doing work) · la in opere (in the process of doing work) · sv i arbete (in the process of doing work)