EGAVE

rework

About 0.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
  2. noun Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
  3. noun Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
    They received the rework back from the shop.
  4. noun Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
    The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework.
  5. noun An instance of reworking.
  6. verb To redo, correct, or rebuild.
    You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.

Similar words

make over retread reformulate re-engineering retool rewrite reorganize overhaul revamp recast

Often followed by

the and it costs or of is their them

Word family

reworked reworking reworks

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