reworking

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Verb

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reworking

  1. present participle and gerund of rework

Noun

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reworking (plural reworkings)

  1. An act in which something is reworked.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 210:
      What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
    • 1988 September 9, David Whiteis, “Stuff enough: Raful Neal and the bluesman's dilemma”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      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.