WORK OUT


Meaning of WORK OUT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ verb ]

Date: 1534

transitive verb

1.

a. : to bring about by labor and exertion

work out your own salvation — Philippians 2:12 (Authorized Version)

b. : to solve (as a problem) by a process of reasoning or calculation

c. : to devise, arrange, or achieve by resolving difficulties

after many years of wrangling, worked out a definite agreement — A. A. Butkus

d. : develop

the final situation is not worked out with psychological profundity — Leslie Rees

2. : to discharge (as a debt) by labor

3. : to exhaust (as a mine) by working

intransitive verb

1.

a. : to prove effective, practicable, or suitable

how this will actually work out I don't know — Milton Kotler

b. : to amount to a total or calculated figure — used with at or to

2. : to engage in a workout

works out regularly at the gym

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.