Collocations withwork

These are words often used in combination withwork.

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arduous work
Even feeling and sight - faculties which we might think of as spontaneous, natural, unmediated - are the fruits of long and arduous work.
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assigned work
This is because those authorities which have assigned work to their own work forces cannot simply revise a specification to meet higher standards.
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best-known work
His best-known work is his piano concerto which premiered in 1941.
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charitable work
They are not required to do a specific amount of charitable work.
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clerical work
Women in clerical work and health care talked about belonging to a fishery community independent of how connected they were to the fishery itself.
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collaborative work
This philosophy epitomises the essence of a collaborative work and one which advances a musical goal.
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commissioned work
The contract subsequently signed defined the commissioned work as "made for hire", although there was no agreement to pay a share of royalties.
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completed work
Most of these have been 'ex-post' studies of completed work, which have employed methods drawn from agricultural economics.
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consulting work
This will build up a comprehensive picture of opportunities for projects and allied consulting work and of how we and our competitors are tackling these opportunities.
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copyrighted work
The one who has broadcast using a copyrighted work may reproduce the broadcastings by sound-recording, video-recording or photographing.
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creative work
The significant correlations between levels of creativity and levels of optimal experience suggest that students who produced high-quality creative work really enjoyed the experience.
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day-to-day work
It succeeds in extracting and compressing from various sources most of the material that is needed for day-to-day work with the system.
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dental work
Dental work by its nature engenders an individualist philosophy.
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derivative work
The substantial originality rule is designed to ensure a 'sufficiently gross difference' between the underlying work and the derivative work to avoid 'entangling' subsequent authors in 'copyright problems'.
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diligent work
Only the attempt to codify and modernize the land law would require a further thirty-seven years of diligent work under subsequent monarchs.
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empirical work
I submit that such empirical work and neuroscience-based modeling should weigh more than ideological preconceptions and computer simulations.
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ethnographic work
Her paper summarizes deep and extensive ethnographic work among youth-based organizations.
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exacting work
Consideration of which aircraft to use for this exacting work obviously had to be taken well in advance of the starting date of operations.
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finished work
These were to house a new wood-fired kiln and to provide other working spaces and a small gallery in which to show finished work.
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finishing work
The chandlers and all the furnishers who are associated with the finishing work in connection with the cargo ship are not required for the tanker.
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flexible work
Reform also introduced flexible work schedules, 'no work, no pay' during strikes, and the prohibition of wage remuneration to full-time trade-union officials.
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foundational work
We then directed our attention to whether the whole of the foundational work need proceed.
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groundbreaking work
Contributors are a mix of leaders in their fields and younger scientists engaged in groundbreaking work.
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hands-on work
And in the end nothing competes with the experience of fieldwork and hands-on work, whether in excavation or among the dusty shelves of museums.
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humanitarian work
Alongside humanitarian work for the most needy, the organisation also runs projects directed towards socially more stable and well-established groups.
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interdisciplinary work
As more colleges and universities begin to address the issues of collaborative and interdisciplinary work in the arts, sharing information will be extremely valuable.
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investigative work
To answer these cause-and-effect questions will require much more investigative work.
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laborious work
I can look back upon a period when women were doing laborious work at the pithead.
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labour-intensive work
In giving money to the fund, is any account taken of the employment opportunities provided by labour-intensive work?
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manual work
The economic efficiency potential of using robots is defined by construction quantities, a high level of manual work, and hard and unfavorable working conditions.
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meaningful work
However, we can also see that it destroys the notion of meaningful work and leads to human time being treated as a commodity.
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menial work
The reality is more likely to be menial work for poor wages.
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missionary work
The officers observed the widely divergent consequences of missionary work, often comparing them with the missions at home.
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monumental work
Yet, flaws and all, this is a monumental work of lasting value.
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orchestral work
But he needed to expand the composition's length to accommodate the requirements of a large-scale orchestral work.
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paid work
Across ethnic groups, having roles in paid work, community, and family were important to perceived quality of life.
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painstaking work
Some of these points probably sound carping in view of the sheer industry and painstaking work undertaken to bring this project to the fore.
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pastoral work
Both the prosperous shepherd and the pastoral labourer engaged directly in pastoral work.
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philanthropic work
It means that on the basis of educational or philanthropic work the local authorities will be able either to remit or to reduce rates.
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pioneering work
He has shaped the field through his fundamental and pioneering work, work that is conceptually profound, and much of it also mathematically deep.
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preparatory work
It would take a year before the uprising was possible, as this delay was necessary for preparatory work.
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productive work
As described earlier, some foraging bands maintain norms of widespread meat sharing, contingent on the contribution of some meaningful productive work that may benefit others.
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published work
In his published work though, he did not make any direct use of non-generic constructions in the context of the approximation by conjugation method.
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remedial work
Highlighting specific areas for improvement allows opportunities for remedial work and creation of individual action plans.
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salaried work
In a few cases, a brother might even take up government employment or other salaried work.
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scholarly work
It presents the results of scholarly work in an accessible form, while at the same time responding to current events.
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secretarial work
One can imagine the reaction if a young man, lured by good pay, wanted to plunge into a female-dominated sphere of secretarial work.
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seminal work
It asks whether this seminal work attests to a continuity of symbolic meanings or whether it is the product of hermetic thought.
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shoddy work
If he fails, the effect on the men is apparent straightaway and all the contributory causes, shoddy work, absenteeism, lightning strikes begin to show themselves.
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site-specific work
There is some thinking that you cannot import anything into a site-specific work that is not in the site already.
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strenuous work
It was strenuous work, but it succeeded in the end.
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submitted work
In the submitted work the conditions for origin of electrical discharges in near-surface atmospheres of these bodies are analysed.
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tedious work
In addition, the tedious work of harvesting and processing is exclusively left to women.
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theoretical work
In contrast to previous theoretical work, our model economy includes a nontrivial role for external finance in the financial development process.
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tireless work
These are two admirable members of another place whose tireless work in this field over many years has been admired by so many of us.
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unpaid work
Prices of informal care were based on shadow prices for unpaid work (meaning a standardized cost price based on general hourly wages).
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unskilled work
They mostly did unskilled work in local factories, though two were nurses and one a student teacher.
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work schedule
With funding assured, the garden group selected officers and organised a work schedule for the project.
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