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workplace

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈwɝkˌpleɪs//

The place where someone works.

noun

  1. 1

    The place where someone works.

    Meronyms: workspace, workstation

    in the workplace

    professionalism in the workplace

    The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.

Etymology

From work + place.

Forms

plural
workplaces
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).