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It sounds like a fragment or a colloquial way of saying "does for a living" or "does for employment." It is not a commonly used phrase in written English, but it can be used in casual or informal speech.
Example sentence: "I always wonder what she does for work, she seems so busy all the time."
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You have to know what she does for work and her daytime activities.
Prof. Dava Newman has fun at parties telling people what she does for work.
It's done entirely out of affection, but if you have any idea of what she does for work or what she's really like, it seems completely absurd.
This spring, Di Domenico travelled to New York, as he often does for work, to MC the 50th birthday party of an Orthodox Jewish hedge fund manager.
"I was embarrassed to find out that he was a firefighter from another district who had brought his daughters out for a look at what he does for work," he said.
In one hour, we learned everything about her: what she does for work (collects "survivor" questionnaires for an organization searching for patterns), what she does at home (obsessively replaces cereal boxes, as if her family were still alive), and what she does for catharsis (hires a prostitute to shoot her in the chest while she's wearing a bulletproof vest).
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Q: What did your father and grandfathers do for work?
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