work (v)
do work (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 41
def be employed
examples Is your husband working again?
My wife never worked
Do you want to work after the age of 60?
She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money
She works as a waitress to put herself through college
Frame - 2 Somebody ----s
Frame - 22 Somebody ----s PP
Outgoing links
Verb Group work, put to work; work; work
Derivationally related form work → work
Derivationally related form work → worker
Hyponym serve; bank; fill, take, occupy; drive; tinker; serve; fink, scab, rat, blackleg; labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil; farm; moonlight; job; man; slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down; subcontract; turn a trick; freelance
Incoming links
Derivationally related form work → work
Derivationally related form worker → work
Hypernym serve; bank; fill, take, occupy; drive; tinker; serve; fink, scab, rat, blackleg; labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil; farm; moonlight; job; man; slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down; subcontract; turn a trick; freelance
Cause work, put to work
Verb Group work, put to work; work; work
Entailment practice, practise, exercise, do

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