work against/for sb
— phrasal verb with work uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/verb
to make it more difficult, or easier, for someone to achieve something:
Inexperience can work against someone looking for a job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inroad
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- reverberate
- thing
- tilt the balance/scales idiom
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- warp
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