work off
Verb
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Verb
- (transitive) To lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the calories gained from eating something.
- We need to get moving to work off these donuts.
- (transitive, by extension) To end (a debt) by doing labor for the person owed money.
- After thirteen years, I've worked off my student debt.
- (transitive, archaic) To produce (printed matter etc.) by some process of work.
- 1774, Philip Luckombe, A Concise History of Printing (page 158)
- Pale Colour. When the sheets are worked off with too little ink.
- 1774, Philip Luckombe, A Concise History of Printing (page 158)
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