To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.
And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?:
2
Obsolete, Rare To work out to a finish; to complete.
For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
outwork
noun
/ˈaʊtwɜːk/ · /ˈaʊtwɝk/
Etymology From out- + work.
1
Architecture A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.