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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get work done en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To receive plastic surgery.
    • We've got nothing to be ashamed of but we don't want to advertise that we get work done either. 2010, Jami Attenberg, chapter 20, in The Melting Season:
    • It's very hard to get work done in your hometown without it being noticed afterward. 2011, Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Single Girl's Survival Guide:
    • The push to get work done younger is just a small part of the reason the cosmetic surgery industry is booming. 2006, Alex Kuczynski, Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery, page 80:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, work, done.
    • I can't get any work done with that noise outside!

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
got work done Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got work done Tense=Past lexicographic
gotten work done Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting work done Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets work done Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic