Function: transitive verb
Date: 1534
1 a : to bring about by labor and exertion < work out your own salvation ― Phil 2:12 (AV)> 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>