"endwork" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From end + work. Compare Middle English andwork; Old English andweorc (“cause”).",
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          "ref": "1987, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress on Renewable Energy Sources, Madrid, Spain, 18-23 May 1986, Volume 1",
          "text": "The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels."
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Communities of Difference",
          "text": "The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily.",
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          "ref": "2012, David Carr, Chan-Fai Cheung, Space, Time and Culture",
          "text": "This is most explicit in his essay “What is Metaphysics?” in which the metaphysical tradition is shown as culminating in “Nothing,” which is the “end-point of tradition, ”thus marking the “metaphysical endwork of traditional metaphysics” or tradition's terminus point, after which it passes into another beginning.",
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          "ref": "2014, Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Mann, Correspondence 1943-1955",
          "text": "The 'opposition' is surely right to speak of 'end-works' in this connection – if only its own products were not so hopelessly unengaging and devoid of comedy.",
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        "Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal"
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          "word": "product"
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          "word": "end-work"
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  "word": "endwork"
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          "ref": "1987, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress on Renewable Energy Sources, Madrid, Spain, 18-23 May 1986, Volume 1",
          "text": "The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels."
        },
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          "ref": "2005, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Communities of Difference",
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      "word": "end-work"
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