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Free sign upThe phrase "to be put to work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone or something being assigned tasks or utilized for a specific purpose. Example: "After the training session, the new employees will be put to work on various projects."
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Low unemployment means there are fewer idle hands to be put to work.
Then there was the unknown man who came in and offered to be put to work.
He said it could take several weeks for the money to be put to work.
To be prepared to take over, a lieutenant governor needs to be put to work.
"As long as the money is there its got to be put to work," he said.
And because that new money needs to be put to work, activists are looking for new targets abroad.
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Her voice was wobbly, off-key, strained, breathy (in the bad sense -- think hyperventilation), and, inexplicably, sounded untrained and unused to being put to work in front of an audience.
With luck, though, the tension can instead be put to work, reinventively, to create better cities.
On Friday he told 3AW the $1.5bn should be "put to work to ease congestion" by starting the upgrades next year.
If Israel accepted the European offer, the American ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva would be put to work immediately to extend Israel's participation there.
But just as it is machines that are generating most of the data deluge, so they can also be put to work to deal with it.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com