Outwork

Quick meaning: Outwork is a verb meaning (transitive) To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).

Meaning

(transitive) To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).

More Meanings

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.
3. (rare, obsolete) To work out to a finish; to complete.

Example Sentences

A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.

Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.

For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].

And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.

Word Forms

• outworks
• outworking
• outworked

Synonyms for outwork

Depending on context, synonyms include fieldwork.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include work, outfinish, outcut, run out, outwear, outwill.

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