v. 1
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
v. 2
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
I work in a national park.
n. 1
Employment. Labour, occupation, job.
My work involves a lot of travel.
n. 2
Product; the result of effort. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
the poetic works of Alexander Pope

Related words

Word family: workability workable workaday workbag workbasket workbench workbox workday
Phrases: work out work-up work over detective work line of work piece of work work of art work the room
Is a kind of: activity
Other spellings: werk

Forms

Plural: works → jobs, employments, efforts, tasks…
Past participle: worked
e.g. worked → used, operated, functioned, accomplished…

or Work?

Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

2 letters: do¹, go¹
3 letters: use¹, run¹, job¹, act¹
4 letters: make¹, play¹, book¹, form¹, move¹, turn¹, lead¹, task¹, duty², mold¹, lick¹, opus², toil¹
5 letters: doing², bring¹, study², issue², piece¹, labor², shape¹, solve¹, forge¹, mould¹, exert², forme
6 letters: office², action², result², effect², effort², labour², affect², manage², fabric², strive¹, oeuvre², drudge¹
7 letters: service², process², writing², product², produce², perform², operate³, succeed², utilize³, exploit², utilise, ferment²
8 letters: business², industry³, activity⁴, function², exercise³, striving², exertion³, drudgery³
9 letters: operation⁴, influence³, cultivate³
10 letters: production³, employment³, occupation⁴, accomplish³, manipulate⁴
11 letters: performance³, composition⁴, manufacture⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (duty² = 2 syllables).