Synonyms of the word

colliery

• n. (Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
• n. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

pit

• n. A hole in the ground.
• n. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
• n. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion…
• n. A mine.
• n. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance…
• n. (trading) A trading pit.
• n. (in the plural, with the, idiomatic, slang) Something particularly unpleasant.
• n. The bottom part of.
• n. (colloquial) Armpit.
• n. (aviation) A luggage hold.
• n. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
• n. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
• n. The grave, or underworld.
• n. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are…
• n. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the…
• n. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
• v. (transitive) To make pits in.
• v. To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
• v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs…
• n. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
• n. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
• n. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper…
• v. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
• n. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

workplace

• n. The place where someone works.