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Meanings of gave up work in English

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Usage of gave up work in English
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She gave up work in 1981 to look after our first child.
The Irish Times
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Stunningly beautiful Jessica, 32, gave up work years ago to have babies.
The Guardian
3
In the winter she entirely gave up work, and confessed herself thoroughly sick.
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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She gave up work for the morning and descended upon Ardelia.
Bambi
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If she gave up work she gave up bread and butter, and that meant starvation.
The Freedom of Life
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Vivian Galley gave up work to care for her husband Bill when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
BBC
7
Between ourselves, I have more and more ever since a certain gentleman gave up work in the City.
The Far Horizon
8
The wife worked in a professional capacity until they had the children, when she gave up work to care for them.
The Irish Times
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I had just met my wife Deborah, who was a chef, though she gave up work to look after our four boys.
Independent.ie
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Once he missed a lecture; the next day all the lectures; and, enjoying his idleness, little by little, he gave up work altogether.
Madame Bovary
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He didn't even finish the contracts he was working on, he just gave up work and became a full-time painter from that day on.
The Irish Times
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He gave up work sixteen years ago to care for his ill wife who was wheelchair-bound and said he was tired of the behaviour.
Radio NZ
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Toward dusk the reddish ants, which may be termed quarriers, gave up work, and this was the signal for the workers below to return home.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
14
Tina (40) (not her real name) is a solicitor who gave up work 10 years ago to raise a family.
The Irish Times
15
Gave up work for Trade Union League to work for suffrage in 1917.
Jailed for Freedom
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Gave up work to come here.
The Guardian
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