body of work

1. 1.

   the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

   “he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre”

   “Picasso's work can be divided into periods”

   Synonymsoeuvrework

   Broaderend product

   Narrowerwriting

Questions about body of work

What does body of work mean?

body of work means "the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)".

What is another word for body of work?

Close synonyms include oeuvre, work. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is body of work a common word?

body of work is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.