by-work

[ bahy-wurk ]

noun

1. work done in addition to one's regular work, as in intervals of leisure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of by-work¹

First recorded in 1580–90; by- + work

Example Sentences

Parergon, pa-rėr′gon, n. a by-work, any work subsidiary to another.

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One characteristic example of this by-work must suffice.

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Like scholars, in addition to her professional or livelihood-study, she devotes herself to an extra-study and by-work and does, in connection with every piece of work, those that lie adjacent to it.

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This however was no mere by-work.

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These, and a hundred other similar instances, were all carefully considered and described by the great naturalist as the by-work with which he filled up one of the intervals between his greater and more comprehensive treatises.

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