endwork

Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal

Noun

  1. Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal
    • The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels. - 1987, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress on Renewable Energy Sources, Madrid, Spain, 18-23...
    • The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily. - 2005, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Communities of...
    • This is most explicit in his essay “What is Metaphysics?” in which the metaphysical tradition is shown as culminating in “Nothing,” which is the “end-point of tradition, ”thus marking the “metaphysical endwork of...

Origin

From end + work. Compare Middle English andwork; Old English andweorc (“cause”).

Forms

endworks end-work

Synonyms

product