work out

verb

1. tr to achieve or accomplish by effort
2. tr to solve or find out by reasoning or calculation

   to work out an answer

   to work out a sum

3. tr to devise or formulate

   to work out a plan

4. intr to prove satisfactory or effective

   did your plan work out?

5. intr to happen as specified

   it all worked out well

6. intr to take part in physical exercise, as in training
7. tr to remove all the mineral in (a mine, body of ore, etc) that can be profitably exploited
8. intr; often foll by to or at to reach a total

   your bill works out at a pound

9. informal.
   tr to understand the real nature of

   I shall never work you out

noun

1. a session of physical exercise, esp for training or practice

Example Sentences

As the anniversary of his death approaches, this is clearly a family still trying to work out how to live their lives without him.

From BBC

Even while he was still at school, he had his sights set on sports journalism, deciding it would be his fall-back if football didn't work out.

From BBC

I stretch, I work out, I walk.

From Los Angeles Times

Then we’d work out the choreography, and then the particle team would take that information and use very elaborate simulation engines to get the basic path of the tornado and deal with its effect on the environment.

From Los Angeles Times

Dr Goddard-Crawley says that anyone with more severe social anxiety should seek deeper, personal therapy to work out where it comes from.

From BBC

Related Words

• accomplish
• achieve
• arrange
• come out
• complete
• develop
• devise
• figure out
• fix
• form
• formulate
• handle
• happen
• resolve
• win