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work out
verb
- tr to achieve or accomplish by effort
- tr to solve or find out by reasoning or calculation
to work out an answer
to work out a sum
- tr to devise or formulate
to work out a plan
- intr to prove satisfactory or effective
did your plan work out?
- intr to happen as specified
it all worked out well
- intr to take part in physical exercise, as in training
- tr to remove all the mineral in (a mine, body of ore, etc) that can be profitably exploited
- intr; often foll by to or at to reach a total
your bill works out at a pound
- informal.tr to understand the real nature of
I shall never work you out
noun
- a session of physical exercise, esp for training or practice
Example Sentences
“I tried many times, but it never worked out. I had no idea that God had any kind of a calling on my life.”
a blessing it would have been to know and trust things were going to work out, maybe not how I thought or wanted at the time, but workout nonetheless.
Dialing down the temperature with a sober-minded, fact-guided effort at giving Anthony due process would work out better for everyone in the community.
“Hopefully it all works out for me,” Agee said then.
Not everyone who tried the treatment was desensitised, and larger trials in more people will have to work out why that is.
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