workloadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwɜːk.ləʊd/us/ˈwɝːk.loʊd/the amount of work to be done, especially by a particular person or machine in a period of time:
Teachers are always complaining about their heavy workloads.
Students do find that their workload increases throughout the course.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
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