noun [U]
1 things made of wood in a building or room, such as doors and stairs:
The woodwork needs painting. * He hit the woodwork (= the wooden frame of the goal) twice before scoring.
2 (BrE) (also woodworking AmE, BrE) the activity or skill of making things from wood
IDIOMS
blend / fade into the woodwork to behave in a way that does not attract any attention; to disappear or hide
come / crawl out of the woodwork (informal, disapproving) if you say that sb comes/crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation:
When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for woodwork is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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