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work out

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See also:workout

English

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Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ˌwɜːk ˈaʊt/
(US)IPA^(key): /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/
Audio(US): (file)

Verb

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work out (third-person singular simple presentworks out,present participleworking out,simple past and past participleworked out)

(transitive) Tocalculate.
Can youwork out 250 × 12 in your head for me?
Can youwork out how to get to the university by car?
- 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, inRAIL, number948, page22:
  You don't have to be Einstein towork out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
(transitive) Tomake sense of.
Synonym:figure out
I can'twork these instructionsout.
(transitive) Todecide.
I can'twork out if I like him or not.
(transitive) Tobring about or cause to happen bywork oreffort.
Near-synonyms:hash out,hammer out
I think we canwork out a compromise.
- 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
  "Ah! if man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself mustwork out his own salvation!"
(transitive) Toresolve; tofind asolution for.
Near-synonyms:straighten out,sort out
They managed towork out their differences.
- 2025 February 3, Tom Phillips, Richard Partington, quotingDonald Trump, “Trump agrees to pause Mexico tariffs as shares tumble over trade war fears”, inThe Guardian‎^[1],→ISSN:
  Trump hinted that Britain might be spared tariffs, saying: “I think that one can beworked out”.
(transitive) Todevelop ordevise in detail; toelaborate.
Near-synonyms:plan out,lay out
towork out a plan
(transitive) Tosmooth orperfect.
Near-synonyms:iron out,smooth out
This is a beta version; we're stillworking out the kinks.
(intransitive) Toconclude with thecorrect solution.
Near-synonym:add up
These figures just don'twork out.
(intransitive) Tosucceed; to result in asatisfactory situation.
Near-synonym:pan out
Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn'twork out.
- 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, inModern Railways, page131:
  As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything wouldwork out daily according to plan.
(intransitive) Toexercise, especially by lifting weights.
Hyponym:pump iron
John won't be here for a while because he'sworking out.
Wow, you're looking good! Do youwork out?
(transitive) Tostrengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
Towork out your core
- 1990 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, volume18, number21, page12:
  Hot,worked-out body and a creative mind possessed by this hunky, handsome, married guy.
(intransitive, US) Toearn awage working away from one'sfarm.
- 1918,Willa Cather, chapter 5, inMy Ántonia‎^[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page38:
  The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer theyworked out together.
- 1939,John Steinbeck, chapter 13, inThe Grapes of Wrath‎^[3], New York: Viking, published1958, page201:
  […] with them good wages, maybe a fella can get hisself a little piece a land an’work out for extra cash.
(transitive, intransitive)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seework,‎out.
Using some tweezers, heworked the bee stingout of his hand.
Heworks out of a small office shared with three others.
(mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
Coordinate term:peter out
The gravel pit had beenworked out.
Aworked-out chalk pit or quarry

Quotations

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1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”,Tapestry, Ode Records
If I could onlywork this lifeout my way / I’d rather spend it bein' close to you.
2009, Reif Larsen,The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Penguin Books, page41:
"I have some questions I need towork out. Big questions."