put to work

VERB
  1. cause to work
    he is working his servants hard
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How To Use put to work In A Sentence

  • School age children are being put to work for family business or sent out by their parents to vend in the streets or beg.
  • New equipment including GPS and an electronic navigation chart system was put to work and the anchor and cable were nominally relocated.
  • Thus, the pay-off on investment was high where there was an expanding labour force with which more capital could be put to work.
  • She had come to this country alone, at eighteen, a skinny little contadina from the mountains of Abruzzi, and was put to work a few days later in the garment district of Boston, before she knew more than a few English phrases. Knowing Jesse
  • rescued," when they were put to work, each of them with a kind of shirt of mail, worn over his coat, which could easily be electrized by a metallic filament connecting with the communal dynamo, and under these conditions they each did a full day's work during the Obligatories. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance
  • The Lean Promotion Office should be small, except for periods when excess employees from line jobs are being redeployed and put to work on short-term kaizen projects. Lean Thinking
  • During the war effort it was stripped of all its finery and put to work by a boilermaker in the Midlands.
  • Because of his job, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers and was put to work on bomb disposal around the Coventry area.
  • Perhaps they could be put to work decorating old buildings reclaimed from irresponsible owners.
  • He emerged to discover the city razed, and was put to work clearing bodies. Times, Sunday Times
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