work back

verb

(intr, adverb) Australian informal to work overtime

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How to use work back in a sentence

But each headline-making event or raid can set their work back.
American Gypsies Are a Persecuted Minority That Is Starting to Fight Back | Nina Strochlic | December 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Sometimes temporary workers come, learn the job, and take the work back to India for good.
Legal Outsourcing Within the United States | Ilana Glazer | April 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
But the way they take work back from China is almost always to upskill.
Why Can't Companies Find the Workers they Need? | Megan McArdle | November 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Should Boeing have to transfer work back to the Puget Sound area to maintain jobs there?
Obama’s Boeing Union Headache | Jill Lawrence | September 1, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
We'd better work back out, taking a different section of the pack as we do.
The Sargasso of Space | Edmond Hamilton

Now Isabel put the work back into Ellen's hand with an accurate haste, and looked up at the group about her.
Country Neighbors | Alice Brown
From the tones we work back to the vocal organs and apply to them the information obtained by attentive listening.
The Psychology of Singing | David C. Taylor
The aperture of the false back was still gaping, and he had not time to work back the spring.
The Real Thing and Other Tales | Henry James
We mean, first, to find out where they are most troublesome, and then we shall work back again.
The Tiger of Mysore | G. A. Henty

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