workups

Noun

workup (countable and uncountable, plural workups)

1. (countable) A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
2. All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
3. A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of scrub baseball.
   • The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories

   Synonyms:

   scrub baseball

5. An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
   • He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289
6. A dossier.
   • They found another gun, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor.2021 February 21, 60 Minutes, season 53, episode 23, spoken by Esther Salas, via CBS