interwork

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verb

To work (two or more things) into and through each other.

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Meanings

verbinterwork (third-person singular simple present interworks, present participle interworking, simple past and past participle interworked or interwrought)

present singular third person interworks · participle present interworking · participle past interworked · past interworked · participle past interwrought · past interwrought · alternative enterwork

  1. transitiveTo work (two or more things) into and through each other.

    They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers[…].

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. intransitiveTo interact.

    Two three-car units have been stationed at Tondu for the new workings and will inter-work with others from Treherbert.

    1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 10

Origin

From inter- + work.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

tinworker
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APA

interwork. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwork

MLA

“interwork.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwork. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interwork,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interwork.

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