be at work
to be working:
The labourers were at work in the fields.
literary to be having an effect, usually an obvious or bad effect:
It seems as though forces of destruction are increasingly at work throughout society.
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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
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of duty idiom
- labour
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
- temp
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Busy and active
Occurring and happening