by-work
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of by-work
Example Sentences
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He has had some learning indeed; but then all that solid by-work, such as is requisite for a Privy Counsellor, of that he never was possessed; and so sit down to work.
From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Augustus William Iffland
Like scholars, in addition to her professional or livelihood-study, she devotes herself to an extra-study and by-work and does, in connection with every piece of work, those that lie adjacent to it.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Parergon, pa-rėr′gon, n. a by-work, any work subsidiary to another.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
One might have supposed that his poetry, great and extensive as it was, was a πάρεργον, a by-work, with him.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
Avocation, vocation.—"Vocation means 'calling' or 'profession'; avocation, 'something aside from one's regular calling, a by-work.'"
From Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
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