Place and Work

Place

Place noun - An assignment at which one regularly works for pay.
Usage example: a friend got her a place in a department store's clothing department

Work and place are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Place".

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

Work

Work noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.
Usage example: the work of a movie director is to tell a story through a series of striking images

Place and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Place" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

How words are described

good good place good work
physical physical place physical work
nice nice place nice work
best best place best work
Other adjectives: particular, better, usual, specific, original, single, popular, actual, entire, real, great, little, bad, new, final, next, last, different, favorite.

Common collocations

man place man work man
people place people work people
thanks place thanks work thanks
body place body work body
Other words: time, spell, money, story, gun, times, orders.

Both words in one sentence

  • Demands that the Henris give her full-time work and a place to live.
  • Series / Broad City Ilana's place of 'work', Deals Deals Deals, is based on a similar company called Lifebooker that Abbi, Ilana, and writer/director Lucia Aniello used to work at.
  • Film / Thief Honor Before Reason: Frank loses everything he cares about - and probably loses out on a much better albeit still criminal life - because of his my way or the highway attitude and refusal to work and place nicely with Leo and his gang.
    Source: Film / Thief
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