TO GO TO WORK

  

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TO GO TO WORK

Definition: TO GO TO WORK

TO GO TO WORK

1. To begin laboring; to commence operations; to contrive; to manage. ``I 'll go another way to work with him.'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO GO TO WORK

English words defined with "TO GO TO WORK": sit up, stay up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO GO TO WORK": Cell-Inin the event that. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO GO TO WORK

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Before I started to go to work at Paul's, I used to think that actors made up their own lines. (In a Lonely Place; writing credit: Dorothy B. Hughes; Edmund H. North)

It's time to go to work, baby. (3000 Miles to Graceland; writing credit: Richard Recco; Demian Lichtenstein)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TO GO TO WORK

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Go to Work When Your Husband Is Against It, Your Children Aren't Old Enough, and There's Nothing You Can Do Anyhow, (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TO GO TO WORK

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A blue crab fishing boat loaded with pots and ready to go to work. Credit: Fisheries.

Negroes waiting to go to work at one o'clock in warehouse and tobacco stem factory, Wendell, Wake County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Selgiman, Arizona. Switchmen in their shanty ready to go to work in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barstow, California. Brakeman, Charles M. Dawes, being wakened to go to work by the caller at the reading room in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: TO GO TO WORK

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

You got to go to work.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO GO TO WORK

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Ivoirian market is up-to-date of the latest versions of new brands of foreign cars. The automobile has positioned itself as a useful means of transportation, and represents a real necessity to move from one place to another, to go to work, and reach remote areas upcountry such as villages and secondary towns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: TO GO TO WORK

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Beth Veglahn

Well, the circumstances was I was a single mother at that time and I had to work. I had to go to work. And I worked four hours at night. And it usually was on Fridays. I had the weekends off and that's what I could come up with.

Rush Limbaugh

Thursday, I pointed out a story from earlier in the week about how Coretta Scott King said there ought not be any time off on her husband's holiday, that it should be a time-on day, meaning people ought to go to work and kids ought to go to school.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: TO GO TO WORK

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Give someone on welfare the chance to go to work.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO GO TO WORK

Language Translations for "TO GO TO WORK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

上班 (to be on duty, to go to the office, to start work). (various references)

   

German

  

an die Arbeit gehen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ogay otay orkway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO GO TO WORK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-k-o-o-o-o-r-t-t-w"

-4 letters: grotto.

-5 letters: kotow, torot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GO TO WORK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 4F      54 4F      57 4F 52 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#32 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 004F      0054 004F      0057 004F 0052 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492414925449257495245

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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