put to work

1. 1.

   cause to work

   “he is working his servants hard”

   Synonymswork

   Broaderuse

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Questions about put to work

What does put to work mean?

put to work means "cause to work".

What is another word for put to work?

Close synonyms include 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 put to work a common word?

put to 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.