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gone to work

gone to work is the past participle of go to work.

Meaning of go to work

Verb

go to work (third-person singular simple present goes to work, present participle going to work, simple past went to work, past participle gone to work)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to, work. (This sense is a translation hub.)
    • I used to go to school in Bristol in the morning, and then I'd go to work in my hometown in the afternoon.
  2. To begin performing some task or work.
  3. To go to one's job, as by commuting.
  4. (idiomatic) To beat up, to batter.
    • I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left.
  5. (idiomatic) To go to town.

Questions about gone to work

What is gone to work the past participle of?
Gone to work is the past participle of go to work.

Words near gone to work in the dictionary

  1. gone to town
  2. gone to town on
  3. gone to war
  4. gone to waste
  5. gone to water
  6. gone to work
  7. gone together
  8. gone toilet
  9. gone too far
  10. gone towards
  11. gone tutti-frutti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gone to work (page history and authors); go to 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.

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