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workstead en · NOUN

Etymology

From work + stead. Cognate with German Werkstatt (“workshop”), Swedish verkstad (“workshop”).

Meanings

1. Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.
   • The factors to consider in establishing a computer workstead can be divided into two categories (or perhaps linked to a two-headed monster): the computer's turf and everything else about home-based business. 1982, Personal computer:
   • He could feel Edain turning like a hound at a scent as they went by a well-equipped bowyer′s workstead, with rows of recurves hanging to dry inside and billets of ashwood ready to be split and smoothed for arrow shafts. 2010, S. M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady:
   • As we walked we saw white slags lying together; where perhaps had been the workstead of some ancient artificer. 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
2. Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation. ▸ A place of employment; workplace.
   • Today there is a trend back to the old workstead as technology can bring people within sight and sound of each other even though they are hundreds of miles apart. 1999, Betty Neville Michelozzi, Coming Alive from Nine to Five:
3. Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation. ▸ A laboratory.

Forms

Translations (9)

fi työpaikka (place for work) · fi työpaikka (place of employment) · pl miejsce pracy (place of employment) · fi työtila (place for work) · fi työpiste (place for work) · pl miejsce pracy (place for work) · fr lieu de travail (place for work) · it posto di lavoro (place of employment) · it postazione (place for work)