workplace

From work +‎ place.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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workplace (plural workplaces)

1. The place where someone works.

   Synonym: workstead (uncommon in some dialects)

   Hypernyms: place, location, site

   Hyponyms: workroom, workshop

   Meronyms: workspace, workstation

   Coordinate terms: home, school

   in the workplace;   professionalism in the workplace

   • 2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 53:

     The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.

   • 2022 December 28, Philip Haigh, “Building the case for West Midlands rail improvements”, in RAIL, number 973, page 24:

     It [the West Midlands Rail Executive] also notes that some people are choosing to live further from their workplace and commute less often.

   • 2025 August 17, Sarah Avi, “Meet the “Otrovert,” A New Personality Type That May Describe You Better Than Anything”, in Free Jupiter‎^[1]:

     In a workplace where everyone wears company-branded jackets and attends the monthly team happy hour, the otrovert might go occasionally, but their sense of self is untouched by whether they participate or not.

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