Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:

"A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed."

Black's Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979).

Noun

work (countable and uncountable; plural works)

1. (uncountable) Labour, employment, occupation, job.

   My work involves a lot of travel.

2. (uncountable) The place where one is employed.

   He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.

3. (uncountable) Effort expended on a particular task.

   Holding a brick over your head is hard work.

   It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.

4. (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.

   There's a lot of guesswork involved.

   Let's take the guess work out of it.

5. (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.

   We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started.

   With the rigors of clinical trials, there's a lot of paper work

6. (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.

   It is a work of art.

7. (uncountable, physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

   Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.

8. (uncountable, thermodynamics) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit..
9. (countable) A fortification.

   William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.

10. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.

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