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Meaning of hard at work | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C1

Definitions

Labouring with great effort and diligence; working hard.

idiomatic

Examples

“I'm sorry I can't make it to the party—I'm going to be hard at work all day.”
“The relegation of locomotives to storage seemed to be on a very unsystematic basis on all three principal Irish railways: while one member of a class was rusting in a yard, another might be hard at work in revenue-earning service—[…].”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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