Dictionary Definition
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English
Etymology
Old English handiwerc, Anglo Saxon handgeweorc; hand hand + geweorc work; prefix ge- + weorc. See workPronunciation
- (UK) /ˈhændiˌwɜːk/, /"h
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild, building, casting, child, coinage, composition, concoction, construction, conversion, coup, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creature, crowning achievement,
cultivation,
dealings, deed, devising, dirty work, distillation, doing, doings, donkeywork, drudgery, effect, effort, elaboration, employment, end product,
endeavor, enterprise, erection, essence, exploit, extract, extraction, fabrication, fag, fait accompli, fashioning, fatigue, feat, formation, forming, formulation, framing, fruit, gest, go, grind, growing, hand, handicraft, handwork, harvesting, industry, invention, issue, job, labor, lick, lick of work, machining, making, maneuver, manual labor,
manufacture,
manufacturing,
masterpiece,
masterwork, measure, milling, mining, mintage, moil, molding, move, new mintage, offspring, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overt act, passage, performance, prefabrication, preparation, proceeding, processing, producing, product, production, raising, rat race, refining, res gestae, result, scut work, shaping, slavery, smelting, spadework, step, stroke, stroke of work, stunt, sweat, task, thing, thing done, tiresome work,
toil, tour de force,
transaction,
travail, treadmill, turn, undertaking, work, workmanship, works