work at
Strive to improve
To work at something is to apply effort toward improving or accomplishing it: She's been working at her Spanish, He worked at the relationship for years.
The phrase suggests sustained, deliberate effort rather than casual attention.
You can also work at a place, meaning be employed there: I work at a hospital.
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- jobPaid position of employment
- day jobPrimary paid employment
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- pursueFollow to catch
go about · career · labor · plug away · chip away · have a go · employment · perform · occupation · beaver away · diligence · perseverance · tenacity · peg away · honing · focus · buckle down · nose to the grindstone
effort and persistence
work atabandon
Leave behind permanently
give up on · quit · drop · forsake · walk away from