line of work

Questions about line of work

What does line of work mean?

line of work means "the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money".

What is another word for line of work?

Close synonyms include occupation, business, job, line. 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 line of work a common word?

line 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.