働く — meaning in English

English meaning

• inflect verb To cause to curve inwards.
• labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
• work noun A job or occupation; the activity someone does to earn a living.
• worker noun A person who performs labor, especially for pay.

Senses

働く is used for these senses in English:

• come into play To become involved, start to play a role.
• inflect (transitive, grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
• labour (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• work (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• worker One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

inflect — full definition

1. verb To cause to curve inwards.
2. verb To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
3. verb To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
4. verb To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

labour — full definition

1. noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
2. noun Workers as a group, especially the working class, or a political movement representing them.
3. noun The process of childbirth, including the contractions leading up to it.
4. verb To work hard at something, or to move forward with great effort or difficulty.

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