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Outwork vs Outsmart - What's the difference?

outwork | outsmart |

As verbs the difference between outwork and outsmart

is that outwork is to work out to a finish; to complete while outsmart is to beat in a competition of wits.

As a noun outwork

is a minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

outwork

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • For now three dayes of men were full outwrought , / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].
  • To work faster or harder than.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia outwork) (en noun)
  • A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

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    outsmart

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to beat in a competition of wits
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.}}

    Synonyms

    * outfox, outguess, outwit

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