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bookwork

noun

Etymology

From book + work.

  1. inherited from *werǵ-✻ — “to make”
  2. inherited from *wérǵom✻ — “work”
  3. inherited from *werką✻ — “work”
  4. inherited from *werk✻
  5. inherited from weorc
  6. inherited from work
  7. compounded as bookwork — “book + work”

Definitions

  1. Accounting work

    Accounting work; book keeping.

    • The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.

  2. The art and science of formatting books.

    • The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.

  3. Work done with the aid of textbooks.

    • The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The act of memorising information

      The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.

      • The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bookwork. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA