Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To work in or into: as, to
inwork gold or any color, as in embroidery: commonly used in the past participle. - To work or operate within.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To work in or within.
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- noun
Indoor work , work done inside thehome . - verb transitive To
work in or into. - verb intransitive To work or
operate within.
Etymologies
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From Middle English *inwork, from Old English inweorc ("indoor work"), from in- + weorc ("work"). Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork ("domestic work, indoor work"). More at in-, work.
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From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken ("to affect, orient"), German einwirken ("to influence, impinge").
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India experienced a 57% increase inwork-related strain in the past two years.
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