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Meaning of "unwork" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNWORK

unwork  [ʌnˈwɜːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNWORK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unwork is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb unwork in English.

WHAT DOES UNWORK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unwork in the English dictionary

The definition of unwork in the dictionary is to destroy or undo.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNWORK

PRESENT

Present
I unwork
you unwork
he/she/it unworks
we unwork
you unwork
they unwork
Present continuous
I am unworking
you are unworking
he/she/it is unworking
we are unworking
you are unworking
they are unworking
Present perfect
I have unworked
you have unworked
he/she/it has unworked
we have unworked
you have unworked
they have unworked
Present perfect continuous
I have been unworking
you have been unworking
he/she/it has been unworking
we have been unworking
you have been unworking
they have been unworking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I unworked
you unworked
he/she/it unworked
we unworked
you unworked
they unworked
Past continuous
I was unworking
you were unworking
he/she/it was unworking
we were unworking
you were unworking
they were unworking
Past perfect
I had unworked
you had unworked
he/she/it had unworked
we had unworked
you had unworked
they had unworked
Past perfect continuous
I had been unworking
you had been unworking
he/she/it had been unworking
we had been unworking
you had been unworking
they had been unworking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will unwork
you will unwork
he/she/it will unwork
we will unwork
you will unwork
they will unwork
Future continuous
I will be unworking
you will be unworking
he/she/it will be unworking
we will be unworking
you will be unworking
they will be unworking
Future perfect
I will have unworked
you will have unworked
he/she/it will have unworked
we will have unworked
you will have unworked
they will have unworked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been unworking
you will have been unworking
he/she/it will have been unworking
we will have been unworking
you will have been unworking
they will have been unworking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would unwork
you would unwork
he/she/it would unwork
we would unwork
you would unwork
they would unwork
Conditional continuous
I would be unworking
you would be unworking
he/she/it would be unworking
we would be unworking
you would be unworking
they would be unworking
Conditional perfect
I would have unwork
you would have unwork
he/she/it would have unwork
we would have unwork
you would have unwork
they would have unwork
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been unworking
you would have been unworking
he/she/it would have been unworking
we would have been unworking
you would have been unworking
they would have been unworking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you unwork
we let´s unwork
you unwork
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to unwork
Past participle
unworked
Present Participle
unworking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNWORK


artwork
ˈɑːtˌwɜːk
awork
əˈwɜːk
bodywork
ˈbɒdɪˌwɜːk
clockwork
ˈklɒkˌwɜːk
coursework
ˈkɔːsˌwɜːk
framework
ˈfreɪmˌwɜːk
homework
ˈhəʊmˌwɜːk
housework
ˈhaʊsˌwɜːk
interwork
ˌɪntəˈwɜːk
inwork
ɪnˈwɜːk
network
ˈnɛtˌwɜːk
nonwork
ˌnɒnˈwɜːk
overwork
ˌəʊvəˈwɜːk
paperwork
ˈpeɪpəˌwɜːk
patchwork
ˈpætʃˌwɜːk
prework
priːˈwɜːk
rework
riːˈwɜːk
teamwork
ˈtiːmˌwɜːk
wickerwork
ˈwɪkəˌwɜːk
work
wɜːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNWORK

unwontedly
unwontedness
unwooded
unwooed
unworded
unworkability
unworkable
unworked
unworkmanlike
unworldliness
unworldly
unwormed
unworn
unworried
unworshipful
unworshipped
unworth
unworthily
unworthiness
unworthy

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNWORK

all in a day´s work
at work
brainwork
chainwork
crownwork
groundwork
hornwork
ironwork
looyenwork
needlework
neural network
openwork
out of work
pinwork
plainwork
social work
tinwork
waxwork
woodwork
wrought ironwork

Synonyms and antonyms of unwork in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unwork» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNWORK

Find out the translation of unwork to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unwork from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unwork» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

unwork
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

unwork
570 millions of speakers

English

unwork
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unwork
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unwork
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unwork
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unwork
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unwork
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non-fonctionnement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berfungsi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nichtarbeits
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unwork
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unwork
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kandhane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unwork
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unwork
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काम न करता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unwork
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unwork
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unwork
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unwork
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unwork
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unwork
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unwork
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unwork
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unwork
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unwork

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWORK»

The term «unwork» is used very little and occupies the 164.104 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNWORK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unwork» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unwork» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unwork

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNWORK»

Discover the use of unwork in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unwork and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance
The “fucking up the system” part interestingly involved a practice that she called “ unwork”: r SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds and unwork. For example, SCUM salesgirls will  ...
Roland Paulsen, 2014
2
Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern
In a particularly engaging section of the manifesto, Solanas predicts, in the future tense so characteristic of manifestoes, that "SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds and unwork.
Janet Lyon, 1999
3
Boats Against the Current: American Culture Between ...
CHAPTER. FOURTEEN. City. of. Unwork. The story of the spread of good roads, pleasant homes, and polite citizens was only part of what travelers observed and pondered in America. Instead of rising popular intelligence, refinement, and ...
Lewis Perry, 2002
4
Darkness More Visible
'Solanasites either "unwork" or,' she read, '"withdraw from the labour force", but that's not the bit I want. Listen to this. "Love can't flourish in a society based upon money and meaningless work: it requires complete economic as well as personal  ...
Finola Moorhead, 2000
5
Cephrael's Hand: A Pattern of Shadow and Light
Unwork them? You are a wielder?” He shook his head. Her eyes widened. “An Adept then?” She looked him up and down curiously. “Of what strand?” “I don't know,” he confessed, feeling as always the anguish of the mystery turning a jagged ...
Melissa McPhail, 2010
6
The Worst of Stephen Markley: Observations, Anecdotes and ...
Unpaid? Allow. Me. to. Unwork. An April 2nd report in The New York Times confirmed what I've long suspected: unpaid internships are a complete load of crap– and probablyillegal. Theunpaid internship hasexplodedas a means ...
Stephen Markley, 2013
7
The Chambers Dictionary
adj unwont (now rare; Spenser, etc) or unwont'ed unaccustomed; unusual. — adv unwont edly. — n unwont edness — adj unword ed speechless; not expressed in words. — vl unwork to undo. — adj unwork able not workable; impracticable.
Allied Chambers, 1998
8
The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Short of that, though, these thoughts on work were conceived during the recent period of 'unwork' when all the workers in inter alia the law laid down their respective tools to rejoice in, or anaesthetise themselves to, the transition from 1980 to ...
‎1981
9
Critical Theorists and International Relations
Importantly, avoiding the assumptions of modern subjectivity and using existential analysis to 'unwork' it enabled Heidegger to attend to existence in its facticity and reveal it in its heteronomy, a term which signifies the constitutive role of ...
Jenny Edkins, Nick Vaughan-Williams, 2009
10
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction
They can respond to this situation in four ways: a) through despaired and cynical resignation, b) through the attempt to construct a space of interiority, to fold into an operative community, c) through the attempt to unwork a disabling community  ...
Paula Martín Salvan, Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, 2013

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