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trabajar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • job noun A paid position of regular employment.
  • labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
  • operate verb To work or run, especially a machine or system.
  • work noun A job or occupation; the activity someone does to earn a living.

Senses

trabajar is used for these senses in English:

  • labour (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • operate (transitive, or, intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
  • operate (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  • work (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • work To shape, form, or improve a material.

job — full definition

  1. noun A paid position of regular employment.
  2. noun A particular task or piece of work to be done.
  3. noun Informal for a robbery or heist.
  4. noun A corrupt or self-serving act carried out under the appearance of official duty.
  5. verb To work irregularly, taking on individual pieces of paid work.

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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