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wuk

wuk is the pronunciation spelling of work.

Meaning of work

Noun

work (countable and uncountable, plural works)

  1. Labour, occupation, job.
    • My work involves a lot of travel.
  2. The place where one is employed.
    • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  3. (broadly) One's employer.
    • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  4. (dated) A factory; a works.
    • In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after[…]1917, Platers' Guide, page 246
  5. Effort expended on a particular task.
    • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  6. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
    • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

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Forms of wuk

third-person singular presentwuks
present participlewukkin'
past participlewukked
pastwukked

Phrases with wuk

Questions about wuk

What is wuk the pronunciation spelling of?
Wuk is the pronunciation spelling of work.

Words near wuk in the dictionary

  1. Wujiagang
  2. Wujiang
  3. Wujiapingian
  4. Wujiaqu
  5. Wujin
  6. wuk
  7. Wuk Wuk
  8. wukipolyomavirus
  9. wukipolyomaviruses
  10. wukkas
  11. wukkaz

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