workup

• work-up

Deverbal from work up.

workup (countable and uncountable, plural workups)

1. (countable, medicine) A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
2. (chemistry) All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
3. (military) A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of scrub baseball
   • 2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:

     The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

5. An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289:

     He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.