brainwork

[ breyn-wurk ]
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noun
  1. work or effort consisting principally or largely of mental activity, thought, imagination, etc., as opposed to physical or manual work.

  2. the effort of thought, reasoning, planning, or the like; ordered or directed thinking: Solving problems is a form of brainwork.

Origin of brainwork

1
First recorded in 1835–45; brain + work

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How to use brainwork in a sentence

  • Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork.

    Ulysses | James Joyce
  • And even then he will sometimes say, "How about the brainwork?"

    The Impossibilities of Anarchism | George Bernard Shaw