Meaning of at work | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, work. At one's workplace.
2. Working, in the process of doing work.
3. At play, in action.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“He's not home at the moment: he's at work.”

“They've got a new photocopier at work.”

“Remember to call Marsha at work.”

“Don't interrupt me while I'm at work on my housing project.”

“In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.”

“This was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work.”

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