Outwork
Pronunciation
- RP
- (verb) enPR: out-wûkʹ, IPA: /aÊŠtˈwÉ”Ëk/
- (noun) enPR: outʹwûk, IPA: /ˈaÊŠtwÉ”Ëk/
- GenAm
- (verb) enPR: out-wûrkʹ, IPA: /aÊŠtˈwÉ”Ërk/
- (noun) enPR: outʹwûrk, IPA: /ˈaÊŠtwÉ”Ërk/
Full definition of outwork
Verb
- (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:For now three dayes of men were full outwrought,
Since he this hardie enterprize began ....
- To work faster or harder than.
Noun
- A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
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