workover
noun
workover is a noun meaning “Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-R-K-O-V-E-R, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of workover is workovers.
What does workover mean?
noun
- 1
Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of workover
- workovers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is workover?
Workover appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does workover come from?
From work + over.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).