workshop

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

Noun

  1. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
    • A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart. - 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens,...
  2. A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
    • On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism. - 2019 July...

    Synonyms: intensive

  3. An academic conference.

Origin

From work + shop.

Forms

workshops

Derived

idle hands are the devil's workshop Santa's workshop sheltered workshop

Verb

  1. To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
  2. To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
    • Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries. - 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and...
  3. To improve through collaboration.

Forms

workshops workshopping workshopped