inwork
Indoor work; work done inside the home.
Noun
- Indoor work; work done inside the home.
- Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork. - 1981, Cragg, Dawson, Great Britain. Dept. of...
Origin
From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).
Verb
- To work in or into.
- To work or operate within.
Origin
From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken (“to affect, orient”), German einwirken (“to influence, impinge”).