workshopping

Verb

workshop (third-person singular simple present workshops, present participle workshopping, simple past and past participle workshopped)

1. (transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
   • That’s because as well as the film being set in San Francisco and channelling California’s favourite sexologist, the cast workshopped the script for a fortnight with screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
2. (transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
   • Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...
3. (transitive) To improve through collaboration.

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