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work on
Verb
to try to persuade or influence (someone)
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Verb1.work on - to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something; "the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold"
work at
work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
belabor, belabour - to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"
2.work on - shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
work, process
transform, transmute, transubstantiate - change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"
shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
hot-work - roll, press, forge, or shape (metal) while hot
cold work, coldwork - shape (metal) without heat
overwork - use too much; "This play has been overworked"
make over, retread, rework - use again in altered form; "retread an old plot"
rack - work on a rack; "rack leather"
tool - work with a tool
till - work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil"


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I do not know which to put first, the effect of Tuskegee's work on the Negro, or the effect on the attitude of the white man to the Negro.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
When my father started for himself, there were many men in Manchester who were willing to labor in this way, but they had no factory to work in, no machinery to work with, and no raw cotton to work on, simply because all this indispensable plant, and the materials for producing a fresh supply of it, had been appropriated by earlier comers.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
This was one of the speeches of the marchande de mode to Adrienne, and the dear girl repeated it in her mind, as she sat at work on me, without the slightest distrust of the heartless selfishness it so ill concealed.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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