toil, regularly performed work, regularly pursued economic activity, labor, job, employment, occupation / job, task, assignment / effort, work, human expenditure / performance, workmanship, work, the result of effort that might consist in a product or performance itself depending on what is owed / work, energy transmitted by force through a body

Work makes you free; work brings freedom.

business before pleasure

(intransitive) to work (to do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers) [+ an (dative)] / (intransitive) to work, function, run, operate (to be operative, in action) / (intransitive) to ferment (to react, using fermentation) / (intransitive) to work, execute (to set into action) / (transitive, briefly artisanal) to make, produce (to create) / (transitive, only with pronouns like etwas, nichts) to do, perform (to carry out or execute, especially something involving work) / (reflexive) to work oneself (to) (to make oneself (a certain state) by working) / (reflexive) to work one's way (to attain through work, by gradual degrees) / (reflexive and impersonal) to work (translated by rephrasing to use a general “you” or with the gerund, “working”) (to do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers)

gerund of arbeiten

plural of Arbeit

agent noun of arbeiten; worker (male or of unspecified gender)

working class

employer (male or of unspecified gender)

employee, worker (male or of unspecified gender)