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From work +‎ shop.

workshop (plural workshops)

  1. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
  2. A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.

    • 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents‎[1]:

      On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

  3. An academic conference.

small manufacturing room

intensive course of education

academic conference

workshop (third-person singular simple present workshops, present participle workshopping, simple past and past participle workshopped)

  1. (transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
  2. (transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.

    • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:

      Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.

  3. (transitive, business) To improve through collaboration.

< English workshop

workshop

  1. synonym of työpaja (“workshop (academic conference)”)

From English workshop.[1]

  • IPA(key): [ˈvørkʃop]
  • Hyphenation: work‧shop
  • Rhymes: -op

workshop (plural workshopok)

  1. workshop
  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Unadapted borrowing from English workshop.

workshop m (plural workshops)

  1. workshop (intensive course of education in a specific subject)
    Synonyms: seminário, oficina

Unadapted borrowing from English workshop.

workshop m (plural workshops)

  1. workshop

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