Labour, occupation, job. / The place where one is employed. / (by extension) One's employer. / (dated) A factory; a works. / Effort expended on a particular task.

Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). / Followed by as. Said of one's job title

(transitive) To shape, form or improve something. / (transitive) To exercise influence on someone.

(idiomatic) Being planned or worked upon. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: In a mechanism or machine.

plural of work in its countable senses

A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.

A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens. / (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of work

(transitive) To make a physical or mental effort to progress some specified task; to endeavor or struggle on an issue or project.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, work. At one's workplace. / Working, in the process of doing work. / (figuratively) At play, in action.