From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishclose workclose workCAREFULwork that involves looking at or handling things in a very skilful, detailed, and careful way After years of close work, she could hardly see a thing if it was over a yard away. → close
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close work• Embroidery is very close work.• Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work.• Task lighting usually entails higher levels of illumination needed for reading and other close work.• He and Clinton have formed such a close working partnership that Kemp, as vice president, would like to emulate Gore.• One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.• A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.• Microscopes can only be used for close work, telescopes for viewing objects from arm's length distance to infinity. 