BUSYWORK Synonyms

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• hard monotonous routine work

• the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

• work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons

• a government tax on imports or exports

• a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

• a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'

• a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

• an object worked on; a result produced by working

• the responsibility to do something

• the performance of a piece of work

• a damaging piece of work

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

• a crime (especially a robbery)

• profit privately from public office and official business

• arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• work occasionally

• invest at a risk

• a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

• a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

• the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• strive and make an effort to reach a goal

• work hard

• undergo the efforts of childbirth

• an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work

• an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters

• a special assignment that is given to a person or group

• the organized work of a religious missionary

• a group of representatives or delegates

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

• the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

• any activity that occupies a person's attention

• the act of occupying or taking possession of a building

• the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• a planned undertaking

• communicate vividly

• extend out or project in space

• transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

• project on a screen

• cause to be heard

• draw a projection of

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• put or send forth

• throw, send, or cast forward

• regard as objective

• the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

• the proper sphere or extent of your activities

• a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• assign a task to

• use to the limit

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

• work hard

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• the trade of a funeral director

• activity directed toward making or doing something

• a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing

• the occupation for which you are paid

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force

• a place where work is done

• the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

• exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work

• be employed

• have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected

• perform as expected when applied

• shape, form, or improve a material

• give a workout to

• proceed along a path

• operate in a certain place, area, or specialty

• proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity

• move in an agitated manner

• cause to happen or to occur as a consequence

• cause to work

• prepare for crops

• behave in a certain way when handled

• have and exert influence or effect

• operate in or through

• cause to operate or function

• provoke or excite

• gratify and charm, usually in order to influence

• make something, usually for a specific function

• move into or onto

• to mix into a homogeneous mass

• use or manipulate to one's advantage

• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

• cause to undergo fermentation

• go sour or spoil

• arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion

• active work of little value