Role and Work

Role

Role noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.

Usage example: studying the role of sunlight in the body's production of vitamin D

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

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

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

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

known	known role	known work
good	good role	good work
particular	particular role	particular work
similar	similar role	similar work
Other adjectives: usual, regular, original, single, actual, entire, real, serious, little, main, important, famous, new, early, major, final, last, different, previous.

It does explore the varying (by country) social contracts involved in police and emergency services work and the role of questionably trained people in it, as well as the constraints involved in attempting to create a publicly credible "superteam" for national consumption.

Source: Literature / The Laundry Series
Ironically enough, when the proper Japanese dub came out, Ise did work in the dub, but as voicing Scootaloo instead, while Ogasawara did not get any role there.

Source: Hypothetical Casting
He's only done one film since, although he did have a role on Deadwood and was allowed to keep doing voice work for Invader Zim.

Source: Role Ending Misdemeanor

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