Word.ws English Dictionary

works of necessity

works of necessity is the plural of work of necessity.

Meaning of work of necessity

Noun

work of necessity (countable and uncountable, plural works of necessity)

  1. (Judaism) Work that is sufficiently important to be done on the Sabbath, despite the usual prohibitions against working on that day.

Questions about works of necessity

What is works of necessity the plural of?
Works of necessity is the plural of work of necessity.

Words near works of necessity in the dictionary

  1. works like a mule
  2. works like a nailer
  3. works like a Trojan
  4. works of art
  5. works of fiction
  6. works of necessity
  7. works off
  8. works on
  9. works one's buns off
  10. works one's fingers to the bone
  11. works one's guts out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: works of necessity (page history and authors); work of necessity (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: “works of necessity.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/works_of_necessity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.