Word.ws English Dictionary

doing a lot of work

doing a lot of work is the present participle and gerund of do a lot of work.

Meaning of do a lot of work

Verb

do a lot of work (third-person singular simple present does a lot of work, present participle doing a lot of work, simple past did a lot of work, past participle done a lot of work)

  1. (literally) To perform a large amount of work.
  2. (figuratively) Carry a great deal of implicit meaning.
  3. (figuratively, sarcastic) To be an understatement.
    • I have written extensively about this elsewhere, but in this context it is noteworthy that yet again, conspiracy theories abound regarding the government hiding information about these videos, especially since they were filmed by the US military, who admitted they are “real.” That word is doing a...2022 October 25, Michael Shermer, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 225

Questions about doing a lot of work

What is doing a lot of work the present participle and gerund of?
Doing a lot of work is the present participle and gerund of do a lot of work.

Words near doing a lot of work in the dictionary

  1. doing a flit
  2. doing a land-office business
  3. doing a listen
  4. doing a little bit of trolling
  5. doing a little trolling
  6. doing a lot of work
  7. doing a Melba
  8. doing a moonlight flit
  9. doing a never
  10. doing a number on
  11. doing a perish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doing a lot of work (page history and authors); do a lot of work (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doing a lot of work.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doing_a_lot_of_work. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.