workshop

From work +‎ shop.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈwɜːk.ʃɔp/

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workshop (plural workshops)

1. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

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.

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.

• shopwork

< English workshop

• IPA^(key): /ˈwøːkʃop/, [ˈwø̞ːkʃo̞p]
• Rhymes: -øːkʃop

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoɾɡʃop/ [ˈwoɾɣ̞.ʃop]
• Rhymes: -oɾɡʃop

workshop m (plural workshops)

1. workshop

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.