workout
n.— «Tomlin was employed by a Columbia bank doing “workouts”—a term for taking a seized, failing business and making it profitable—and turned a failing workers’ dormitory in Hilton Head into successful vacation condominiums.» —“Bull Street plan is new power broker’s vision” by Jeff Wilkinson The State (Columbia, S.C.) Feb. 5, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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