a room or small building where people use tools and machines to make, fix, or build things
Leo keeps all his carpentry tools in the workshop behind his house.
The mechanic pushed the broken lawn mower into the workshop for repairs.
✦ From work + shop; originally meaning a place where work is done, first recorded in English in the late 16th century.
a short course or meeting where a small group actively learns about a topic by doing practical activities and discussing ideas
We attended a weekend workshop on digital photography.
The conference begins with a hands-on coding workshop for beginners.
✦ Educational sense developed in the early 20th century as educators borrowed the idea of a place for doing practical work and applied it to learning sessions.
to develop or improve something by discussing it and trying it out with a group
The playwright decided to workshop the new script with local actors.
We workshopped several logo ideas before choosing the final design.
✦ Verb use dates from the 1950s, extended from the noun sense of a collaborative space into the idea of collaborative development.
