work

noun

• (heading) Employment.
• (heading) Effort.
• Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.

  "We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags."

• (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• The staging of events to appear as real.
• Ore before it is dressed.
• The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

  "Tell me you're using clean works at least."