line of work

Questions about line of work

What is another word for line of work?

It depends which line of work you mean. In the sense “the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money”, the synonyms are occupation, business, job, line. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of line of work?

WordNet records no antonym for line of work. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for line of work come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of line of work

• Full entry for line of workAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for line of workWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.