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Line of work   /laɪn əv wərk/   Listen
Line of work

noun
1.
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.  Synonyms: business, job, line, occupation.






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"Line of work" Quotes from Famous Books



... industrial education, which, a few years ago, was mainly confined to a few institutions, has been, in some form or other, adopted in a large number of cities both in the North and in the South. The results of this line of work are already seen. Hundreds of industrial artisans and trained mechanics are scattered here and there all over the South, and are practically ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... is," warned Rollins. "And a good many of the fellows believe Farley to be the best man of the class in this line of work." ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

... that as Architectural Photography covered a large and varied field he purposed to confine his remarks to the line of work most familiar to him, namely, The Interiors of some ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various

... life, and rigorous ways they are, as we shall see. Young men of small means, and who can afford to waste little time in the amusements of university life, go at once where the more celebrated professors in their particular line of work are lecturing. ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... in her special line of work is looking back at it from the place where things show truest, and she says, "God help us all! What is the good done by any such work as mine? 'If any man build upon this foundation . . . wood, hay, stubble. . . . If ...
— Things as They Are - Mission Work in Southern India • Amy Wilson-Carmichael


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