Definition of "outwork"

outwork

/aʊtˈwɔːk/

verb
third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked
1. (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
  Quotations
  For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. To work faster or harder than.
  Quotations
  And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.
  2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?
noun
countable and uncountable, plural outworks
1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.