work on sth
— phrasal verb with work uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/verb
B2 to spend time repairing or improving something:
His dancing technique is good, but he needs to work on his stamina.
More examples
- I need to work on my pronunciation if I'm to pass the exam.
- The meal tasted great, but you should work on the presentation.
- The service is still not satisfactory, but the company say they're working on it.
- If you worked on it, you could have a really good singing voice.
- His jokes are good, but he needs to work on his delivery.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
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