The phrase "absorb the work" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts where one is expected to take in or understand the tasks or responsibilities assigned to them.
Example: "As a new employee, it will take some time to absorb the work and fully grasp the expectations of my role."
Alternatives: "take in the tasks" or "understand the responsibilities".
"We couldn't absorb the work force back into our community," Mr. Oakes said, "and people were hungry".
I became a sponge and took in everything, trying to absorb the work ethic and craftsmanship required to be a professional". He toured with Tharp! until 1998.
This year, Alfred A. Knopf published "Collected Poems: Mark Strand," a collection that allows readers to absorb the work as a whole.
"There is no way that a parliamentary committee can absorb the work that the SDC with its 40 staff is doing," she said.
The talent pool isn't large enough in Hong Kong or Dubai to absorb the work, so firms often find themselves soliciting lawyers from their offices in the United States or Britain, enticing lateral hires from other firms or promising younger lawyers a chance to do high-level client work much sooner than they might in New York.
Like any expansive, all encompassing, elaborate art event, the onset of visual and mental fatigue can quickly exhaust someone attempting to navigate and absorb the work.
The Institutes of Health would see its funding remain flat while it absorbed the work of three agencies from the Department of Health and Human Services.
They won the contract, and as a result they had an incentive to increase productivity -- and profits -- by absorbing the work of colleagues who were retiring.
Rollins and Charlie Parker were always clearly among Henderson's primary influences, but he had also absorbed the work of those equally wayward individualists, Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk.
The film shows that Mr. Iwai knows the power of pop and has probably absorbed the work of John Hughes, possibly the most influential creative force in films of the last 20 years, whether we want to admit it or not.
The film shows that Mr. Iwai knows the power of pop and probably has absorbed the work of John Hughes, who is possibly the most influential creative force in films of the last 20 years, whether we want to admit it or not.
