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View synonyms for work off

work off

verb

  1. to get rid of or dissipate, as by effort

    he worked off some of his energy by digging the garden

  2. to discharge (a debt) by labour rather than payment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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