verk
Pronunciation: /vɛrk/
“verk” is a Swedish word. Its 6 meanings in English:
noun
- a work; something which has been accomplished
- a case, an event (under study or at hand)
- an agency running directly under the government
- a mill; a machine or a facility for a certain kind of production or activity
- the electric or water services or some other services of a municipality, e.g. vattenverk, reningsverk, elverk, renhållningsverk (the latter: cleaning services)
- a unit formed by several smaller components
Etymology
From Old Norse verk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.
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