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inwork

inwork noun: indoor work; work done inside the home.

Noun

inwork (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Indoor work; work done inside the home.
    • Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork.1981, Cragg, Dawson, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Qualitative research among homeworkers

Verb

inwork (third-person singular simple present inworks, present participle inworking, simple past and past participle inwrought or inworked)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To work in or into.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To work or operate within.

Forms of inwork

third-person singular presentinworks
present participleinworking
past participleinwrought
pastinwrought
past participleinworked
pastinworked

Origin of inwork

From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).

From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken (“to affect, orient”), German einwirken (“to influence, impinge”).

Words formed from inwork

Questions about inwork

What does inwork mean?
Inwork means indoor work; work done inside the home.
What part of speech is inwork?
Inwork can be a noun or a verb.

Words near inwork in the dictionary

  1. inwombs
  2. inwone
  3. inwones
  4. inwood
  5. inwoods
  6. inwork
  7. inworked
  8. inworking
  9. inworkings
  10. inworks
  11. inworld

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