• (British) IPA: /ˌwɜːk ˈaʊt/
• (America) IPA: /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/

work out (third-person singular simple present works out, present participle working out, simple past and past participle worked out)

1. (transitive) To calculate.

   Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?

   Can you work out how to get to the university by car?

2. (transitive) To make sense of.

   Synonyms: figure out

   I can't work these instructions out.

3. (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.

   to work out a plan

4. (transitive) To smooth or perfect.

   This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.

5. (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.

   These figures just don't work out.

6. (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.

   Are you still seeing John? – No, it didn't work out.

7. (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.

   John won't be here for a while because he's working out.

   Wow, you're looking good! Do you work out?

8. (transitive) To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.

   To work out your core

9. (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 13, in The Grapes of Wrath‎, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 201:

     […] with them good wages, maybe a fella can get hisself a little piece a land an’ work out for extra cash.

10. (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC ↗:

      "Ah! if man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation!"

11. (transitive, intransitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see work, out

    Using some tweezers, he worked the bee sting out of his hand.

    He works out of a small office shared with three others.

12. (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.

    The gravel pit had been worked out.

    A worked-out chalk pit or quarry

• workout

• French: calculer
• German: ausrechnen
• Portuguese: calcular
• Russian: рассчи́тывать
• Spanish: calcular

• Russian: понима́ть
• Spanish: entender

• French: élaborer
• German: ausarbeiten
• Italian: elaborare
• Russian: разраба́тывать

• Spanish: resolver

• German: Erfolg haben, gelingen
• Italian: funzionare
• Portuguese: funcionar, dar certo, ter êxito
• Russian: получа́ться
• Spanish: funcionar

• French: entraîner
• German: trainieren
• Italian: allenarsi
• Portuguese: malhar, exercitar-se
• Russian: упражняться
• Spanish: entrenar