put to work | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)toput to use2008, David L. Goetsch,Taking Your Faith to Work,→ISBN, page26:Clearly, empathy is a Scriptural concept that Christians canput to workin becoming better leaders.2008, Elisabeth Doucett,Creating Your Library Brand,→ISBN, page26:Once you develop a great brand, you need toputitto work. The simple rule of thumb is that you should use your brand everywhere you can.2008, Kevin Cameron,Sportbike Performance Handbook,→ISBN, page103:But there is useful energy in the exhaust pressure pulse, and what a turbocharger does is toputitto workdriving a supercharger.; Give ajob; Force towork(even if it ismake-work)2007, David P. Levine,Welfare, Right and the State: A Framework for Thinking,→ISBN, page28:Insistence that those who become dependent on the state beput to workseeks to impose the demands of the reality principle on them or to punish them by forcing them to do the unskilled work inconsistent with creative living.1998, Jerry Bruce Thomas,An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression,→ISBN, page28:The able-bodied unemployed, who were without work because of the Depression, he believed should beput to workby the federal government at wages higher than the dole but lower than the prevailing wage so as not to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment "until economic recovery would make work relief unnecessary."2004, Rodney Dale Whipple, Lorna Lynch,Say Goodbye To Skolobow,→ISBN, page167:That night, he told Ernst that Peter wanted toputhimto work“to keep him out of trouble,” as he'd put it.

Examples:

EN: It's okay with me like I told ya, providing that kid of yours is put to work.
ES: Ya te dije que estaba de acuerdo, si tu niña se pone a trabajar.
EN: And no job I was put to work doing to other guys what had been done to me.
ES: Me puse a hacer lo que aquellos tipos me habían hecho a mí.
EN: I've been slighted and taught nothing and put to work not fit for me.
ES: Me han abandonado y he tenido que trabajar obligado.
EN: They were dangerous zones! I could've wound up put to work in Germany!
ES: Eran zonas peligrosas, ¡podía acabar en Alemania trabajando!
EN: Only after food or an enemy is located with the antennae are the savage mandibles put to work.
ES: Cuando encuentran comida o a un enemigo emplean sus feroces mandíbulas.
EN: I've been put to work.
ES: Estoy destinado a un comando.
EN: We can always use... use more money to put to work for the bank, can't we, boy?
ES: El dinero siempre le viene bien al banco.
EN: There is a war and you are being put to work in labor camps.
ES: Hay una guerra e irán a trabajar a los campos de trabajo.
EN: I got a man I want you to put to work.
ES: Quiero que le dé trabajo a un hombre.
EN: He becomes a model prisoner and is put to work in the laundry.
ES: Se convierte en un prisionero modelo y lo afectan a la lavandería.
EN: And she said that we're going to be put to work?
ES: ¿Y ha dicho que vamos a trabajar?
EN: Money should be put to work.
ES: El dinero hay que ponerlo a trabajar.
EN: Our subjects are in excellent physical condition, ready to be put to work
ES: Nuestros sujetos se encuentran en excelente condición física, listos para ser puestos a trabajar.
EN: All put to work in the woollen mills.
ES: A todos los pusieron a trabajar en las fábricas de lana.
EN: "they should be put to work in labor columns. "Where," he explained, "doubtless a large part will fall away
ES: Una vez separados, deben ser puestos para trabajar... en columnas de trabajo, donde ", explicó que...

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