war-work
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.34 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In this instance, this presents a substantial methodological problem precisely because war-work was so unlike much of the industrial employment, not of all women, but of the women who were war-workers."
- "Dorr had finished drill, and come up, as he did every day, to freshen himself with an hour's talk to this warm, blundering fellow. In this dismal war-work, (though his whole soul was in that, too,) it was like putting your hands to a big blaze."
- "'The “Bloomsburies” were all doing war-work of “National Importance”', commented Percy Wyndham Lewis, 'down in some downy English county, under the wings of powerful pacifist friends; pruning trees, planting goosebury bushes, and haymaking, doubtless in large sunbonnets."