go to work

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go to work (third-person singular simple present goes to work, present participle going to work, simple past went to work, past participle gone to work)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ to,‎ work. (This sense is a translation hub.)

   I used to go to school in Bristol in the morning, and then I'd go to work in my hometown in the afternoon.

2. To begin performing some task or work.
3. To go to one's job, as by commuting.
4. (idiomatic) To beat up, to batter.

   I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left.

5. (idiomatic) To go to town.

• "to go to work" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• “go to work”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.