reworking

rework | American Dictionary

rework
verb[ T ]
us/riˈwɜrk/
to change a speech, other writing, or a drawing to make it better or more suitable for a particular purpose

rework | Business English

rework
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌriːˈwɜːk/us
to make changes to calculations of costs, prices, etc. in order to make them more accurate:
The Irish low-cost airline will present a reworked subsidy package as part of its appeal against the ruling.
We are currently reworking the entire project budget.
to make changes to a law, document, etc. in order to make it more effective, suitable, or accurate:
rework a bill/lawIf the reworked bill is approved, it will come back for an Assembly vote.
PRODUCTION
to make changes to a machine or piece of equipment in order to correct faults in it:
The reworked cars will be tested over the next four weeks.

Examples of rework

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Partial failures, particularly in combination, however, can lead to rework and major project delays.
Similarly, exact values may be mistaken for placeholders, resulting in a poor quality product or rework.
In this setting, reworking was common and associated with an abundant admixture of siliciclastic detritus or even erosion of the entire ash bed.
The perforated disks were created by reworking a potsherd into a circular form by chipping, drilling, and then grinding the edges to a smooth finish.
In the ensuing decade, he has reworked his doctoral thesis substantially as well as considerably extending its scope.
Moreover, people are able to rework memories and still feel confident about the accuracy of those memories.
Kinematically, it is possible that antithetic normal faults facing southward could be reworked by thrusts.
The flat part is developed along the pre-existing contact between upper and lower tectonic units, reworking it.
Longstanding dichotomies such as metropole\\colony and civilized\\primitive were reworked into the categories of developed\\ underdeveloped.
Re-wired: reworking 20th century live electronics for today.
All the theory presented above can be reworked for this reduction semantics.
Others were seized in raids and reworked for the corso or broken up for their wood.
Underlay and editorial accidentals are reworked in all examples here.
The plan was reworked with a bay missed-out.
Sometimes it can fuel the ruthlessness of a dictator; at other times, it causes only reworks that blaze up and then disappear.
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