Reworked

How to spell reworked

8 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce reworked

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does reworked mean?

1. verbRevised, altered, or done again to improve or correct something.
2. adjectiveHaving been revised or reshaped from an earlier version.

Reworked in a sentence

• verb

  The designer reworked the logo until the client was happy.

• adjective

  The reworked proposal finally won the committee's approval.

• verb

  She reworked the budget after the new figures arrived.

• adjective

  A reworked engine ran far more smoothly than the original.

Where does reworked come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the past form of 'rework', which simply joins the prefix re-, meaning 'again' or 'back', to the verb 'work'. 'Work' itself is one of the oldest words in English, descending from the Old English weorc, meaning labour, a deed, or something made, and it has close cousins in the German Werk and the Greek ergon, which also meant work and survives in words like 'energy'. The prefix re- arrived through Latin, where it carried the sense of doing something over or returning to a starting point, and English has attached it freely to native verbs for centuries. 'Rework' in the sense of reshaping or revising something dates to the 1800s, when it became common in manufacturing and writing alike. Because both parts are familiar and the spelling is phonetic, the only thing to watch is keeping the single 'k' before the regular -ed ending.

How the word is built

• re- (again)
• work (from Old English weorc: labour, deed)
• -ed (past tense/participle suffix)