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work off en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the calories gained from eating something.
   • We need to get moving to work off these donuts.
2. (broadly, transitive) To end (a debt) by doing labor for the person owed money.
   • After thirteen years, I've worked off my student debt.
3. (archaic, transitive) To produce (printed matter etc.) by some process of work.
   • Pale Colour. When the sheets are worked off with too little ink. 1774, Philip Luckombe, A Concise History of Printing, page 158:
4. (colloquial) To ferment.

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