Norwegian English Dictionary

Norsk - English

arbeide in English:

1. work work


The radio doesn't work.
Mother Teresa used the prize money for her work in India and around the world.
After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.
I always work alone. I'm just not a team player.
Computers are capable of doing very complicated work in a split second.
Japanese office workers work very hard.
If you want to sound like a native speaker, it'll take a lot of work.
Exhausted from a day's work, he went to bed much earlier than usual.
I was beaten up by a gang of hoodlums on the way home from work.
People who regularly work in the open air do not suffer from sleeplessness.
After a hard day's work, a man can do with a good, hot meal.
I wonder if Tom has ever considered cycling to work.
Tom brings his children with him to work once or twice a year.
The committee stayed up late last night trying to work out measures that would please everyone.
It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.

2. working working


I continued working.
A working man should be paid in proportion to his skill, not his age.
Recently, the number of foreigners working or studying in Japan has increased.
The loneliness and drabness of working away from people are fatal to his best effort.
The man in charge of the merry-go-round decided to make sure everything was working properly.
Many families now have two breadwinners with both husbands and wives working.
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Twenty-five years from now there will be one retired person for each two working.
We hope you will understand the difficult circumstances we're working under.
By signing the contract, I committed myself to working there for another five years.
On Friday evenings, a group of us with spouses working overseas meet at Chuck's Bar and Grill.
I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.
The patient's lung tissue was damaged from years of working in a coal mine.
After the hatchet job my boss did on my proposal, I'm not sure how long I want to keep on working here.
He had gone there to help garbage workers strike peacefully for better pay and working conditions.