Definition of "working-out" [working-out]

• In music, that section of a work or movement which follows the exposition of the themes and precedes their recapitulation, and which is devoted to the development of fragments, or modifications of them, in a comparatively free and unsystematic way. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They have a healthy interest in food and a ruthless interest in the logical working-out of the implications of magic."
• "Physiologically the members of this family are the slow working-out of accidents to the blood and nervous system which occur in a race after a first organic lesion, according to the environment determining in each of the individuals of this race sentiments, desires, passions, all the natural and instinctive human manifestations whose products take on the conventional names of virtues and vices."
• ""Whether that will happen in the third quarter or fourth quarter will depend on external factors" such as the working-out of Europe's debt problems, he said."