Usually means: Exert more effort than others.
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  1. outwork: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outwork: Merriam-Webster
  3. outwork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outwork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outwork: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outwork: Vocabulary.com
  7. outwork: Wordnik
  8. outwork: Wiktionary
  9. outwork: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. outwork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. outwork: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Outwork, outwork: Dictionary.com
  13. Outwork: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Outwork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. outwork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. outwork: Rhymezone
  17. Outwork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. outwork: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. outwork: FreeDictionary.org
  20. outwork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. outwork: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Outwork: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
verb:  (rare, obsolete) To work out to a finish; to complete.
noun:  (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
noun:  Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

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