under workとは意味・読み方・使い方

From under- +‎ work.

underwork (third-person singular simple present underworks, present participle underworking, simple past and past participle underworked or (archaic) underwrought)

(transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
(intransitive, obsolete) To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
- 1605, Ben[jamin] Jonson, “The Argument”, in Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, →OCLC, , signature [A4], recto:
  
  [H]e raiſ eth (in priuate) a nevv Inſtrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him vndervvorketh, diſcouers the others Coũſells [i.e., counsels], his Means, his Ends, […]
(ambitransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).

to underwork a painting
(intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
(transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
  
  But thou from loving England art so far,
  That thou hast underwrought his lawful king.
(transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.

One mason may underwork another.

underwork (uncountable)

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