Meaning of put to work | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to put to use
   idiomatic
2. Give a job; Force to work (even if it is make-work)

Examples

“Clearly, empathy is a Scriptural concept that Christians can put to work in becoming better leaders.”

“Once you develop a great brand, you need to put it to work. The simple rule of thumb is that you should use your brand everywhere you can.”

“But there is useful energy in the exhaust pressure pulse, and what a turbocharger does is to put it to work driving a supercharger.”

“Insistence that those who become dependent on the state be put to work seeks to impose the demands of the reality principle on them or to punish them by forcing them to do the unskilled work inconsistent with creative living.”

“The able-bodied unemployed, who were without work because of the Depression, he believed should be put to work by the federal government at wages higher than the dole but lower than the prevailing wage so as not to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment "until economic recovery would make work relief unnecessary."”

“That night, he told Ernst that Peter wanted to put him to work “to keep him out of trouble,” as he'd put it.”

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