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  • noun Work done with the brain; mental effort.

Etymologies

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brain +‎ work

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Examples

  • Nor is this remarkable, for persons who are occupied with what is called "brainwork," are peculiarly sensitive to the disturbances of the streets.

    Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

  • For the homeschooling family, continuing the quiet time will reinforce naps for the little ones (if there are any) and may allow older children to accomplish the heavier "brainwork" of school, or just give them some "down time" after a busy morning.

    Making Home 2008

  • For the homeschooling family, continuing the quiet time will reinforce naps for the little ones (if there are any) and may allow older children to accomplish the heavier "brainwork" of school, or just give them some "down time" after a busy morning.

    Making Home 2008

  • For the homeschooling family, continuing the quiet time will reinforce naps for the little ones (if there are any) and may allow older children to accomplish the heavier "brainwork" of school, or just give them some "down time" after a busy morning.

    Making Home 2008

  • For the homeschooling family, continuing the quiet time will reinforce naps for the little ones (if there are any) and may allow older children to accomplish the heavier "brainwork" of school, or just give them some "down time" after a busy morning.

    Making Home 2008

  • The whole idea of an office smacks of a transposition of the "factory" model to brainwork!

    Ending Dunder Mifflin: A 21st-Century Way To Save America $250 Billion A Year 2011

  • Just a quick one to add to all this great discussion: If I hear the words “all this thinking is making me tired” then I get a sense I have succeeded as a facilitator of opportunities for brainwork during language production activities.

    C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Sure, you can get around the irritating sync-issue, but doing so requires a degree of faff and brainwork, like solving the famous logic problem about ferrying a load of foxes and chickens across a river without it all ending in feathers and death.

    I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling | Charlie Brooker 2011

  • The whole idea of an office smacks of a transposition of the "factory" model to brainwork!

    Ending Dunder Mifflin: A 21st-Century Way To Save America $250 Billion A Year 2011

  • It's a sport where you don't have to be a seven-footer or 300-pounder to excel, (Lionel Messi, the best player in the world is 5ft 7 ins), a game for which you don't have to spend thousands of dollars on fancy equipment, a game based on constant running and movement, on agility and grace, on vision and brainwork.

    Alan Elsner: America's Hatred of Soccer Now (Mostly) A Thing of the Past 2010

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