Schoolwork is the lessons and exercises a teacher sets. Fall behind with schoolwork, finish your schoolwork, help with schoolwork.
It covers what is done in class as much as at home, which is what separates it from homework. Falling behind with schoolwork is the phrase teachers use in reports, and it usually means something else is wrong.
1nounschoolworkThe lessons and exercises a teacher sets a learner.
“She falls asleep in class because she stays up late doing schoolwork.”
schoolwork is work.
School plus work. School comes from Greek schole, which first meant leisure and then a place of learning.
From school + work.
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