physical or mental effort directed towards doing or making something
2.
paid employment at a job or a trade, occupation, or profession
3.
a duty, task, or undertaking
4.
something done, made, etc, as a result of effort or exertion
a work of art
5.
materials or tasks on which to expend effort or exertion
6. another word for workmanship (sense 3)
7.
the place, office, etc, where a person is employed
8.
any piece of material that is undergoing a manufacturing operation or process; workpiece
9.
a.
decoration or ornamentation, esp of a specified kind
b.
(in combination)
wirework
woolwork
10.
an engineering structure such as a bridge, building, etc
11. informal
plastic surgery performed for cosmetic reasons
12. physics
the transfer of energy expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which itspoint of application moves in the direction of the force
Abbreviation: W, w
13.
a structure, wall, etc, built or used as part of a fortification system
14. at work
15. make short work of
16. (modifier)
of, relating to, or used for work
work clothes
a work permit
verb
17. (intransitive)
to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something
18. (intransitive)
to be employed
19. (transitive)
to carry on operations, activity, etc, in (a place or area)
that sales team works the southern region
20. (transitive)
to cause to labour or toil
he works his men hard
21.
to operate or cause to operate, esp properly or effectively
to work a lathe
that clock doesn't work
22. (transitive)
to till or cultivate (land)
23.
to handle or manipulate or be handled or manipulated
to work dough
24.
to shape, form, or process or be shaped, formed, or processed
to work copper
25.
to reach or cause to reach a specific condition, esp gradually
the rope worked loose
26. (transitive) mainly US and Canadian
to solve (a mathematical problem)
27. (intransitive)
to move in agitation
her face worked with anger
28. (transitive; often foll byup)
to provoke or arouse
to work someone into a frenzy
29. (transitive)
to effect or accomplish
to work one's revenge
30.
to make (one's way) with effort
he worked his way through the crowd
31. (transitive)
to make or decorate by hand in embroidery, tapestry, etc
working a sampler
32. (intransitive)
(of a mechanism) to move in a loose or otherwise imperfect fashion
33. (intransitive)
(of liquids) to ferment, as in brewing
34. (transitive) informal
to manipulate or exploit to one's own advantage
35. (transitive) slang
to cheat or swindle
yakka in American English
(ˈjækə)
noun
Austral
work, esp. hard work
Word origin
[1885–90; earlier sp. yacker, yakker; of obscure orig.]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classified, scrum, seminar, sensitization, zoom
Examples of 'yakka' in a sentence
yakka
Hard yakka for her, but on the surface of things, a promising canvas for an enterprising biographer.