Main Entry: work out

Function: verb

Date: 1534

transitive verb

1 a : to bring about by labor and exertion <work out your own salvation — Philippians 2:12 (Authorized Version)> b : to solve (as a problem) by a process of reasoning or calculation c : to devise, arrange, or achieve by resolving difficulties <after many years of wrangling, worked out a definite agreement — A. A. Butkus> d : develop <the final situation is not worked out with psychological profundity — Leslie Rees>
2 : to discharge (as a debt) by labor
3 : to exhaust (as a mine) by workingintransitive verb 1 a : to prove effective, practicable, or suitable <how this will actually work out I don't know — Milton Kotler> b : to amount to a total or calculated figure —used with at or to
2 : to engage in a workout <works out regularly at the gym>