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View synonyms for work off
work off
verb
- to get rid of or dissipate, as by effort
he worked off some of his energy by digging the garden
- to discharge (a debt) by labour rather than payment
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Idioms and Phrases
Get rid of by work or effort, as in They worked off that big dinner by running on the beach , or It'll take him months to work off that debt . [Second half of 1600s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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