rework

Plural: reworks

Verb

Verb Forms: reworked, rewrought, reworking, reworks

• To revise or reshape something; to do over.
• use again in altered form
• To redo, correct, or rebuild.

Noun

• The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
• Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
• Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
• Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
• An instance of reworking.

Examples

• He had to rework his entire Words With Friends strategy after his opponent blocked his best hook.
• The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework.
• They received the rework back from the shop.
• They sent the assembly back to the shop for rework.
• You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.

Synonyms

make over, retread

Anagrams of rework