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work over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beat, beat up, work oververb

    give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

    "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

Wiktionary

  1. work oververb

    To improve a prototype, or first draft.

  2. work oververb

    To physically attack in order to cause injury.

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  1. work over

    "Work over" typically refers to the act of examining or revising something thoroughly. The phrase may have different interpretations based on the context but it generally means to fix, improve, or make adjustments to. In the context of a meeting or discussion, it could mean to discuss or debate a topic extensively. In the oil and gas industry, "work over" refers to performing major maintenance on an oil or gas well.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of work over in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of work over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of work over in a Sentence

  1. Andrea Syrtash:

    Couplesdon't need to do everything together; but a couple can't lead separate lives if they want their marriage to work over the long-term, they shouldn't be co-dependent or too independent -- they should be interdependent.

  2. Meg Whitman:

    We've done a significant amount of work over the past few years to take costs out and simplify processes and these final actions will eliminate the need for any future corporate restructuring.

  3. Med Jones:

    The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications.

  4. Amnesty International:

    We must be very clear : Nothing we documented Ukrainian forces doing in any way justifies Russian violations, russia alone is responsible for the violations it has committed against Ukrainian civilians. Amnesty's work over the last six months and our multiple briefings and reports on Russia's violations and war crimes reflect their scale and the gravity of their impact on civilians.

  5. Gordon Chang:

    What they have done is really Gods work, over a long period of time, this group has been able to do some very important things that governments have not wanted to do and have not been able to do. And also we know that the group took thumb drives out of the North Korean embassy in Madrid, they gave them to the FBI and this is important because North Korean embassies are really centers of crime. North Korea raises money through criminal activities, which are centered on the embassies. I am sure that we found a lot of information about how North Korea launders money through Europe, because of the information this group gave to federal authorities.

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