inwork
verbEtymology From in- + work. Compare Dutch inwerken (“to affect, orient”), German einwirken (“to influence, impinge”).
1
Archaic To work in or into.
2
Archaic To work or operate within.
inwork
nounEtymology From Middle English *inwork, *inwerk, from Old English inweorc (“indoor work”), from Proto-West Germanic *inwerk, equivalent to in- + work. Cognate with Scots inwark, inwork (“domestic work, indoor work”).
1
Rare Indoor work; work done inside the home.
- Many respondents saw their earnings as a marginal, even though often essential, contribution to the household budget and one outside the formal constraints of inwork.1981, Cragg, Dawson, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Qualitative research among homeworkers: