outwork

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Pronunciation

• (RP)
  • (verb) enPR: out-wûkʹ, IPA: /aʊtˈwɔːk/
  • (noun) enPR: outʹwûk, IPA: /ˈaʊtwɔːk/
• (America)
  • (verb) enPR: out-wûrkʹ, IPA: /aʊtˈwɔːɹk/
  • (noun) enPR: outʹwûrk, IPA: /ˈaʊtwɔːɹk/

Verb

outwork (outworks, present participle outworking; past and past participle outworked)

1. (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 [...].

2. To work faster or harder than.

Noun

outwork

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

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