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What's "work out" mean?

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Rebecca

Here, "work out" means for something to have a good and specific result, or for something to be accomplished. It can also mean planning or devising something! Ex: I'm so glad our meet-up worked out! It was great to see you again. => I'm so glad we were able to meet up! It was great to see you again. Ex: We'll work out all the details later. => plan Ex: It didn't work out with John. We broke up.

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