WFH

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A form of working from home — The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.

RareScrabble 12

Meanings

nounWFH (countable and uncountable, plural WFHs)

plural WFHs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of working from home.

    Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country [title]

    2022 September 15, Maxwell Strachan, “Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country”, in Vice
    1 more example

    Those managers, who had always regarded WFH as some kind of work-avoidance scam, realised that digital technology was just the ticket for keeping an eye on their newly remote subordinates.

    2022 February 26, John Naughton, “Think WFH means your boss isn’t watching you? Think again”, in The Guardian
  2. USabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecopyrightInitialism of work for hire.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of World Federation of Hemophilia: an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with hemophilia and other genetic bleeding disorders.
verbWFH (third-person singular simple present WFH or (nonstandard) WFHs, present participle WFH or (nonstandard) WFHing, simple past and past participle WFH or (nonstandard, rare) WFHed)

nonstandard present singular third person WFHs · nonstandard participle present WFHing · nonstandard participle past rare WFHed · nonstandard past rare WFHed

  1. abbreviationinitialismneologismInitialism of work from home.

    Not everyone wants to 'WFH', and there's a clear drift back to the office.

    2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79

Synonyms & antonyms

Cite this entry
APA

WFH. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WFH

MLA

“WFH.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WFH. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “WFH,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/WFH.

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