putting to work
Making something useful
Putting to work means employing something or someone for a purpose—activating resources, skills, or people toward productive ends.
You can put money to work by investing it, put knowledge to work by applying it, or put employees to work by assigning them tasks.
She's putting her degree to work at a research lab.
The phrase emphasizes transition from idle potential to active use.
- getting the ball rollingInitiating momentum on something
- manageDirect or handle successfully
- exploitNotable act or abuse
- mobilizeOrganize for action
- employEngage for work
setting in motion · engage · deploy · assigning · harness · activate · leveraging · operation · executing · enacting · energizing · application · repurposing · tapping · delegating · implementing · inducting · hiring
putting to workshelving
Horizontal storage surfaces
mothballing · setting aside · benching · sidelining · neglecting
putting to worklaying off
Terminating employees involuntarily
firing · terminating · dismissing · letting go · furloughing
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