Outwork is an English word with synonyms like defense or defence. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Outwork meaning
- To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
- To work out to a finish; to complete.
Using Outwork
- The main meaning on this page is: To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else). | To work out to a finish; to complete.
- Useful related words include: defensive structure, defense, defence.
- In the example corpus, outwork often appears in combinations such as: to outwork, outwork him.
Context around Outwork
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outwork
- In this selection, "outwork" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, everybody and everyone stand out and add context to how "outwork" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include athletes who outwork and overwhelm and compete and outwork them. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outwork" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outwork
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No one is going to outwork him. (7 words)
As a player and as a coach, he's going to outwork everybody. (13 words)
We did that and came out with the mindset just to compete and outwork them. (15 words)
As I was growing up, these were the women I wanted to be: triumphant at the highest levels of commerce, assailing stereotypes of what a successful businessperson looked like, with smarts and vision and the will to outwork everyone in sight. (41 words)
His default setting of simply trying to outwork the competition, however, has not always sat well with managers, players, coaches and other team officials. (24 words)
Billy Donovan has talked for years about the sort of team he wants, one built around long athletes who outwork and overwhelm their opponents. (24 words)
Example sentences (7)
His default setting of simply trying to outwork the competition, however, has not always sat well with managers, players, coaches and other team officials.
We did that and came out with the mindset just to compete and outwork them.
As a player and as a coach, he's going to outwork everybody.
I wasn’t going to outspend him, but I knew that I would outwork him.
No one is going to outwork him.
As I was growing up, these were the women I wanted to be: triumphant at the highest levels of commerce, assailing stereotypes of what a successful businessperson looked like, with smarts and vision and the will to outwork everyone in sight.
Billy Donovan has talked for years about the sort of team he wants, one built around long athletes who outwork and overwhelm their opponents.
Common combinations with outwork
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to outwork 4×
- outwork him 2×