The article examines some semantic properties of the verbs to work , to labor and to serve as the nucleus of the lexical-semantic field “Labor activity of a person”. The material for the study is the data of main Russian explanatory dictionaries and dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms. It is shown that these verbs, in their basic meanings, have substantial common semantic features which are related to the ideas of human activities, professions, jobs, earning money etc., but at the same time are characterized by some differences in their meanings. The author comes to the conclusion regarding a significant evaluative potentiality of the verbs.
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