finishing work

collocation in English

meaningsoffinishandwork

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finish
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/us
/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/
the end of a race, or the last part ...
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work
noun
uk
/wɜːk/us
/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition offinishandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffinishing work

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The chandlers and all the furnishers who are associated with thefinishingworkin connection with the cargo ship are not required for the tanker.
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There is delay not attributable to the printing, but to the distribution andfinishingwork.
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There is no reason whyfinishingworkshould not have a viable long-term future.
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Delays are all too common, both in starting andfinishingwork.
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The other labour not necessary to the finishing processes has been dispersed, except that some may have been absorbed in thefinishingwork.
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Our industry excels, of course, in the building of liners, which involve much highly skilledfinishingwork.
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I regret that information about the times of accidents in relation to the times of starting andfinishingworkis not available.
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These are the people who step in to do thefinishingworkwhen the structural part of the ship has been completed.
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A man afterfinishingworklikes to come home to the comfort of his home.
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They are worried because, afterfinishingwork, they spend their money on shopping for their families.
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The cancellation of the cargo ships is significant because of the amount offinishingworkthat goes into them, whereas there is practically no finishing work on a tanker.
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He is nowfinishingworkon his, as yet untitled, second solo album.
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Parish work parties painted and did otherfinishingwork.
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Within weeks offinishingworkon their debut, the band was bitten by a fresh creative bug.
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Reconstruction andfinishingworkwere getting other facilities in place for full activities on the campus.
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It meant that workers would rush to pubs afterfinishingworkand consume as much alcohol as possible before the bar closed.
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In both approaches, landscape artists would typically begin with outdoor sketching and preliminary painting, withfinishingworkdone indoors.
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He added many modifications over the next four years,finishingworkin 1635.
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Volunteers are mostly involved with the interiorfinishingwork, she says.
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Thefinishingworklasted another 6 years till the line opening in 1900.
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