at work

Speech parts

1. at work - Phrase

2. at work - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

on the job

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

working active operating running effective going moving employed performing engaged occupied absorbed busy methodological operative
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Antonyms

free off inactive unoccupied workless at leisure
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Examples

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Erma Bombeck

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. John Muir

If the devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work. Russian Proverb

Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat. German Proverb

Quick at meat, quick at work. German Proverb

Words in the phrase

at work

Close letter words and terms

at will call at will employment at wit's end at work on at worst at year end