Working Hard
Phrase
without stopping
around the clock
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
Noun
a person who earns money to support a family
breadwinner
American families are changing. We are not a homogeneous collection of working fathers and domestic mothers. More families than ever have mothers as the primary breadwinner and fathers who tend to the children.
American families are changing. We are not a homogeneous collection of working fathers and domestic mothers. More families than ever have mothers as the primary breadwinner and fathers who tend to the children.
Verb
work together on a common enterprise or project
Celebrity Emma Watson recently announced that she would collaborate with designer Alberta Ferretti to create a new organic clothing line.
Phrase
carry out unpleasant or difficult things
do the dirty work
Cleaning our bathroom is not fun. Too bad I always seem to have to do the dirty work.
Cleaning our bathroom is not fun. Too bad I always seem to have to do the dirty work.
Verb
receive as return for effort and especially for work done
Alejandro Cartagena peeks into the backs of pickup trucks, where construction workers pile together on their way to earn enough to get by. His photo series, “Car Poolers,” is an effort to peer inside these tiny worlds.
Noun
use of physical or mental energy
Worker bees will surround an attacking wasp and proceed to vigorously vibrate their muscles. The heat and carbon dioxide released by this group exertion is lethal.
Verb
bring something into existence or effect
After typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines, citizens from around the world worked around the clock to analyze satellite imagery, generating maps to provide relief agencies with invaluable crowdsourced information.
Adjective
extremely important
These tasks don't sound Olympian — opening a door, climbing a ladder, turning a valve, but they are for robots. If a robot can do these tasks, it could help humans by playing key roles in disaster relief.
Verb
work hard and long
Kim Chae-young crams five evenings a week, toiling deep into the night. But unlike most young South Koreans who spend hours at special schools to polish their English and math, she studies slide steps and bubbly lyrics.
Noun
machine that performs dependably under heavy use
NASA's workhorse glided down to Earth for the 39th and final time just before noon EST Wednesday, marking the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.