はたらく
to work
A person with movement bolted onto them, which is the whole of the idea. Coat on the hook, hat はた on the rack らく, and eight hours of it: はたらく.
仕事 しごと is the job. 働く is the doing of it. 働き者 はたらきもの is a hard worker.
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