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worked back

worked back is the simple past and past participle of work back.

Meaning of work back

Verb

work back (third-person singular simple present works back, present participle working back, simple past and past participle worked back)

  1. (Australia, idiomatic, intransitive) to work overtime; to make up time off by working overtime; to work beyond a specific shift.

Questions about worked back

What is worked back the simple past and past participle of?
Worked back is the simple past and past participle of work back.

Words near worked back in the dictionary

  1. worke
  2. worked
  3. worked around
  4. worked at
  5. worked away
  6. worked back
  7. worked backward
  8. worked blue
  9. worked in
  10. worked into the ground
  11. worked like a dog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worked back (page history and authors); work back (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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