Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - rework

(reworks, reworking, reworked) If you rework something such as an idea or a piece of writing, you reorganize it and make changes to it in order to improve it or bring it up to date. See if you can rework your schedule and come up with practical ways to reduce the number of hours you’re on call. = revise VERB: V n • reworking (reworkings) Her latest novel seems at first sight to be a reworking of similar themes. N-COUNT: usu N of n