line of work

Noun

Meaning

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

line business occupation job department game area work position service field function industry living practice

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Antonyms

kip interval holiday ease discharge leisure

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Hypernyms

activity

Hyponyms

accountancy game place work land position

Examples

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would. Kent McCord

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. - May 24, 2005. George W. Bush

I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned. Cassandra Clare

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work. Colin Mochrie

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. Gale Anne Hurd

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. Kevin Costner

Close letter words and terms

line of verse line of vision line of weakness line of workers line of workers in a factory line officer