at work

1. 1.

   on the job

   “had been at work for over an hour before her boss arrived”

   Similarbusy

Questions about at work

What does at work mean?

at work means "on the job".

Is at work a common word?

at work is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.