🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

工作量

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gōngzuòliàng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Workload/ˈwɜːk.ləʊd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"最近几个星期的工作量非常大。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The amount of work to be done by a person, organization, or machine within a specified period.

    "The teacher struggled to manage a heavy workload at the end of the semester."
  2. 2

    The operational burden or computational tasks assigned to a system or processor.

    "Cloud computing helps balance the server workload during peak traffic hours."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the Old English 'weorc' (meaning labor, task, or action) and the Old English 'hlād' (meaning a burden or that which is loaded). The compound emerged in the mid-20th century, initially within industrial engineering and later expanding into general administrative, educational, and computing contexts to measure the amount of work to be performed.

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