workshop

Meanings

Plural: workshops

Noun

• small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
• a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving
• A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
• A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
• An academic conference.

Verb

• To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
• To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
• To improve through collaboration.

Synonyms

shop