Plug
Plug verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: plugged away at solving the math problem
Work
Work verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: the organization has worked for years to raise people's awareness of human rights issues
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| particular | particular plug | particular work |
| normal | normal plug | normal work |
| regular | regular plug | regular work |
| bad | bad plug | bad work |
| Other adjectives: new, last, latest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In the Courtney Cox series Dirt, the slimeball producer is having a hot work affair with a young intern who makes him wear a butt plug to work one day.
Source: Bowel-Breaking Bricks -
She needs a carburetor, a set of plug wires She's ridin' me around on four bald tires The wipers don't work and the horn don't blow But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio
Source: The Alleged Car -
Several days after John Troutman announced that he was pulling the plug on Lit Brick, a ton of fans came out of the wood work to bemoan the loss, convincing him to do regular updates again.
Source: Un-Canceled
Cite this Source
Work and Plug. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/work
Plug & Work. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/work>.
Work or Plug. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/work.
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