Word.ws English Dictionary

work smarter, not harder

work smarter, not harder proverb: problems are solved more effectively by intelligence than by exertion.

Proverb

work smarter, not harder

  1. Problems are solved more effectively by intelligence than by exertion.

Questions about work smarter, not harder

What does work smarter, not harder mean?
Work smarter, not harder means problems are solved more effectively by intelligence than by exertion.
What part of speech is work smarter, not harder?
Work smarter, not harder is a proverb.

Words near work smarter, not harder in the dictionary

  1. work shadowing
  2. work shift
  3. work shifts
  4. work shoe
  5. work shoes
  6. work smarter, not harder
  7. work someone's arse off
  8. work someone's ass off
  9. work someone's butt off
  10. work someone's tail off
  11. work song

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: work smarter, not harder (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: “work smarter, not harder.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/work_smarter%2C_not_harder. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.