Inwork
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Indoor work; work done inside the home. rare, uncountable
"Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork."
- 1 To work in or into. archaic, transitive
- 2 To work or operate within. archaic, intransitive
Example
More examples"Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork."
Etymology
From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).
From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken (“to affect, orient”), German einwirken (“to influence, impinge”).
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