Translation
work, job, effort
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Word origin
A noun from trabajar, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare ('to torture'), from tripalium, a three-staked torture device. The sense shifted from suffering to effort and labour.
- Origin
- Vulgar Latin
- Root
- tripalium
- English cognates
- travail, travel
Grammar
Examples
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My job forces me to travel quite a lot.
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Good work, the project turned out perfectly.
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I lost my job and now I am looking for a new one.
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This research project has taken me months.
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Painting the whole house will be an enormous job.
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I have a lot of work to finish this week.
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