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endwork en · NOUN

Etymology

From end + work. Compare Middle English andwork; Old English andweorc (“cause”).

Meanings

1. Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal
   • The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels. 1987, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress on Renewable Energy Sources, Madrid, Spain, 18-23 May 1986, Volume 1
   • The 'opposition' is surely right to speak of 'end-works' in this connection – if only its own products were not so hopelessly unengaging and devoid of comedy. 2014, Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Mann, Correspondence 1943-1955:
   • This is most explicit in his essay “What is Metaphysics?” in which the metaphysical tradition is shown as culminating in “Nothing,” which is the “end-point of tradition, ”thus marking the “metaphysical endwork of traditional metaphysics” or tradition's terminus point, after which it passes into another beginning. 2012, David Carr, Chan-Fai Cheung, Space, Time and Culture:
   • The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily. 2005, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Communities of Difference:

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product