reworking
reworking is the present participle and gerund of rework.
Meaning of rework
Verb
rework (third-person singular simple present reworks, present participle reworking, simple past and past participle reworked or (rare) rewrought)
Noun
reworking (plural reworkings)
- An act in which something is reworked.
- What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 210
- It was the exhilaration of moments like this that made the audience somewhat restless during the band's long warm-up sets later in the evening, sets primarily made up of craftsmanly but unimaginative reworkings of contemporary pop-funk.1988 September 9, David Whiteis, “Stuff enough: Raful Neal and the bluesman's dilemma”, in Chicago Reader
Forms of reworking
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Questions about reworking
- What does reworking mean?
- Reworking means an act in which something is reworked.
- What is reworking the present participle and gerund of?
- Reworking is the present participle and gerund of rework.
- What part of speech is reworking?
- Reworking is a noun.
- What is the plural of reworking?
- The plural of reworking is reworkings.
Words near reworking in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: reworking (page history and authors); rework (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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