out-workとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûkʹ, IPA: /aʊtˈwɜːk/
  • (noun): enPR: outʹwûk, IPA: /ˈaʊtwɜːk/
• (General American)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûrkʹ, IPA: /aʊtˈwɝk/
  • (noun): enPR: outʹwûrk, IPA: /ˈaʊtwɝk/

動詞

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

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

   Hypernym: outdo

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

   • 2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?:

     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.

2. (rare, obsolete) To work out to a finish; to complete.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

名詞

outwork (countable and uncountable, plural outworks)

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

   Coordinate term: fieldwork

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

2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

   Synonym: fieldwork

アナグラム

• work out, workout