workhorse

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a person or machine that you can rely on to do hard and/or boring work

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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.

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workhorseEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary workhorseEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary workhorseEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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workable workaday workaholic work-basket workbench workbook workday worked up worker work experience workfare

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workhorse