work out

work out
verb Date: 1534 transitive verb 1. a. to bring about by labor and exertion <
work out your own salvation — Philippians 2:12 (Authorized Version)
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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
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d. develop <
the final situation is not worked out with psychological profundity — Leslie Rees
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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
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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
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New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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