put to work
Make someone labor
To put something to work is to make it active or productive.
You put money to work by investing it, put skills to work by applying them, put a plan to work by implementing it.
She put her degree to work at a nonprofit.
We need to put these ideas to work.
The phrase emphasizes transition from potential to action.
- employEngage for work
- applyPut into operation
- deployPosition for use
- mobilizeOrganize for action
- utilisePut to practical purpose
hire · exploit · use · harness · engage · assign · yoke · activate · get cracking · roll up sleeves · recruit · press · task · set in motion · implement · delegate · exercise · operate