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office work

office work noun: any activity intended to be productive primarily using the mind and not requiring significant movement or bodily exertion.

Noun

office work (uncountable)

  1. Any activity intended to be productive primarily using the mind and not requiring significant movement or bodily exertion
  2. A set of related activities including record-keeping, organizing, accounting, communicating, editing, or managing
  3. Work that is part of a bureaucracy.
    Synonyms:
    shallow work, office job
  4. Any work that takes place in an office except facility maintenance and janitorial services

Synonyms of office work

Questions about office work

What does office work mean?
Office work means any activity intended to be productive primarily using the mind and not requiring significant movement or bodily exertion.
What part of speech is office work?
Office work is a noun.

Words near office work in the dictionary

  1. office suites
  2. office up
  3. office wall
  4. office walls
  5. office wire
  6. office work
  7. office worker
  8. office workers
  9. office-goer
  10. office-goers
  11. office-holder

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