work on

work on

vb

(intr, preposition) to persuade or influence or attempt to persuade or influence

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	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"

Translations

? work on

vi → weiterarbeiten

vt sep lid, washer → daraufbringen

vi +prep obj

car, book, subject, accent → arbeiten an (+dat); who’s working on this case? → wer bearbeitet diesen Fall?

evidence, assumption → ausgehen von; principle (person) → ausgehen von; (machine) → arbeiten nach; there are not many clues to work on → es gibt nicht viele Hinweise, auf die man zurückgreifen könnte; I’m working on this one lead → ich habe alles an diesem einen Anhaltspunkt aufgehängt

we haven’t solved it yet but we’re still working on it → wir haben es noch nicht gelöst, aber wir sind dabei; if we work on him a little longer we might persuade him → wenn wir ihn noch ein Weilchen bearbeiten, können wir ihn vielleicht überreden; obviously the other side have been working on him → ihn hat offensichtlich die Gegenseite in der Mache gehabt (inf)