Work Synonyms

1. labour

• Donkey work
• Drudgery
• Effort
• Elbow grease
• Exertion
• Fag
• Graft
• Grind
• Industry
• Labour
• Service
• Slog
• Spadework
• Sweat
• The sweat of one's brow
• Toil
• Travail
• Yakka
• Moil

2. employment

• Business
• Calling
• Career
• Day job
• Employment
• Job
• Line
• Means of earning one's living
• Occupation
• Position
• Post
• Profession
• Situation
• Trade
• Vocation
• Employ

3. tasks

• Assignments
• Commissions
• Duties
• Jobs
• Projects
• Tasks
• Chores

4. handiwork

• Act
• Deed
• Doing
• Feat
• Handiwork
• Performance

5. composition

• Accomplishment
• Achievement
• Composition
• Creation
• Opus
• Piece
• Work of art
• Oeuvre

6. writings

• Canon
• Oeuvre
• Writings
• Output

7. factory

• Business unit
• Factory
• Foundry
• Industrial unit
• Manufacturing complex
• Mill
• Plant
• Workshop
• Yard
• Shop

8. mechanism

• Action
• Innards
• Machinery
• Mechanism
• Movement
• Parts
• Working parts
• Workings
• Insides

9. everything

• Everything
• The full monty
• The full treatment
• The lot
• The whole (kit and) caboodle
• The whole nine yards
• The whole shebang
• The whole shooting match
• The whole ball of wax

10. toil

• Beaver away
• Bullock
• Drudge
• Exert oneself
• Fag
• Graft
• Keep at it
• Kill oneself
• Knock oneself out
• Labour
• Peg away
• Plod away
• Plug away
• Put one's back into something
• Slave (away)
• Slog (away)
• Sweat blood
• Toil
• Travail
• Work day and night
• Work like a Trojan/dog
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work one's guts out
• Work one's socks off
• Moil

11. be employed

• Be employed
• Do business
• Earn one's living
• Have a job
• Hold down a job
• Follow/ply one's trade

12. function

• Be in working order
• Function
• Go
• Operate
• Perform
• Run
• Behave

13. operate

• Control
• Direct
• Drive
• Handle
• Manipulate
• Manoeuvre
• Operate
• Ply
• Run
• Use
• Wield

14. succeed

• Be effective
• Be efficacious
• Be successful
• Come off
• Do the business
• Do the trick
• Get results
• Go as planned
• Have the desired result
• Pay off
• Succeed
• Take effect
• Turn out well
• Work out
• Turn the trick

15. bring about

• Accomplish
• Achieve
• Bring about
• Carry out
• Contrive
• Create
• Do
• Engender
• Execute
• Implement
• Perform
• Produce
• Effect

16. knead

• Fashion
• Form
• Knead
• Mix
• Model
• Mould
• Shape
• Squeeze
• Stir
• Blend

17. cultivate

• Cultivate
• Farm
• Plough
• Till
• Exploit

18. manoeuvre

• Edge
• Guide
• Make
• Manipulate
• Manoeuvre
• Negotiate
• Thread
• Wind
• Weave

19. twitch

• Move spasmodically
• Quiver
• Twist
• Twitch
• Convulse

20. excite

• Drive
• Excite
• Fire
• Galvanize
• Incite
• Inflame
• Move
• Rouse
• Spur
• Stir (up)
• Whip up
• Agitate