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UNDERWORK

Definition: UNDERWORK

UNDERWORK

Intransitive verb

1. To do work for a less price than current rates.

2. To do less work than is proper or suitable.

3. To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.

Noun

1. Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.

Transitive verb

1. To do like work at a less price than; as, one mason may underwork another.

2. To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting.

3. To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: UNDERWORK

English words defined with "UNDERWORK": Underworked, Underworking, Underwrought. (references)

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Modern Translation: UNDERWORK

Language Translations for "UNDERWORK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punë e pakualifikuar, punë e keqe (nasty business). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

работя недостатъчно, не карам да работи достатъчно. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pracovat za menší plat. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem dolgoztat meg eléggé. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erworkunday

   

Romanian

  

lucra prea puţin, face de mântuialã (fudge, mess, muddle, slobber), efectua o muncã pentru platã micã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

работать недостаточно, подкапываться. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raditi krišom, rđavo raditi, nedovoljno (failing, insufficiently, unsatisfactorily). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UNDERWORK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-k-n-o-r-r-u-w"

-1 letter: unworked.

-2 letters: drowner, drunker, rewound, rondure, rounder.

-3 letters: dourer, downer, droner, dunker, enduro, knower, kroner, kronur, ordure, reword, rework, undoer, undrew, wonder, worked, worker.

-4 letters: dower, drone, drouk, drown, drunk, endow, kendo, korun, krone, nuder, nuked, order, owned, owner, redon, rerun, rewon, rouen, round, rowed, rowen, rower, ruder, under, unwed, uredo, woken, wound.

-5 letters: doer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNDERWORK


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

55 4E 44 45 52 57 4F 52 4B

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    .-.    .--.    ---    .-.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0057 004F 0052 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

554838395257495245

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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