underwork

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ work.

Pronunciation

Verb

underwork (third-person singular simple present underworks, present participle underworking, simple past and past participle underworked or (archaic) underwrought)

  1. (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
    to underwork a painting
  4. (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
  5. (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
  6. (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
    One mason may underwork another.

Noun

underwork (uncountable)

  1. Subordinate work; petty business.
    the underwork of the nation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “underwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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