What is "reworking"

Usage examples of "reworking".

Developmentalists from Loevinger to Kohlberg to Piaget have long pointed out that every stage involves various types of reworkings of previous patterns, taken up, enfolded, and reassimilated into the new structures.

A heel chain clevis, and two hame line rings need replacing, and that means reworking and riveting the harness as well.

The elaborate music of his father had to be put aside since there were no coloraturas available, though he managed to get Halanna to come and sing at Turn's End, reworking a ballad so he could sing with her.

The elaborate music of his father had to be put aside since there were no coloraturas available, though he managed to get Halanna to come and sing at Turn's End, reworking a ballad so he could sing with her.

His (early) archaeology of actual existence was a neostructuralist reworking of the traditional structuralist's analysis of possible types of experience, but it still placed emphasis on the exterior surfaces and structures of discursive formations and the transformation rules (of rarefication and exclusion) that individuated serious speech acts.

Even allowing for exaggeration, those must've been brave urs who climbed fuming volcano heights to build the first crude forges near fiery lava springs, toiling through cinders and constant danger to learn the secret of reworking Buyur metal and break the Gray Queens' tool-monopoly forever.