Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work done at odd times or in addition to one's regular work; an occasional task or performance.
- noun A work that has failed in the doing; a work that has proved a failure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun work done in addition to one's normal duties
Etymologies
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From by- + work.
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Examples
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For naval service is a matter of art, like anything else; and does not admit of being practised just when it may happen, as a bywork; but rather does not even allow of anything else being a bywork to it.
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