Translations for „hammer out“ in the English » German Dictionary

hammer out VB trans

1. hammer out (shape metal):

to hammer sth ⇆ out

etw [glatt] hämmern

to hammer out a dent

eine Delle ausbeulen

2. hammer out (find solution):

to hammer sth ⇆ out

etw aushandeln

to hammer sth ⇆ out difficulties

etw bereinigen

the employers are threatening to abandon procedures that have been hammered out over the years

die Arbeitgeber drohen damit, von Verfahren Abstand zu nehmen, die über Jahre hinweg mühsam erarbeitet wurden

to hammer out a plan

einen Plan ausarbeiten

to hammer out a settlement

einen Vergleich aushandeln

3. hammer out fig (play loudly on piano) tune:

to hammer sth ⇆ out

etw hämmern

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to hammer out a dent

eine Delle ausbeulen

to hammer out a plan

einen Plan ausarbeiten

to hammer out a settlement

einen Vergleich aushandeln

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The leaf spring snaps the hammer away from the pole-piece, pushing the hammer out against a ribbon and placing an image of a dot onto the paper.

en.wikipedia.org

Communities in the basin left partisanship at the door to hammer out a solution.

thinkprogress.org

In a larger room nearby, negotiators attempt to hammer out cease fires with creditors on behalf of existing clients.

www.canadianbusiness.com

When the parties believe that they understand how their evidence fared in the minds of the jury, they meet and once more attempt to hammer out their differences.

en.wikipedia.org

Nonetheless, the trading partners can hammer out a local coordination, despite vast global differences.

en.wikipedia.org

Someone else will have to hammer out the logistics, but if they can make it work, they should.

www.theglobeandmail.com

People put proposals on the table and you see what you can hammer out.

windsorstar.com

Some kind of forum, perhaps initially a roundtable, could be the right place to hammer out priorities and actual, realistic plans of action.

www.theglobeandmail.com

A third option, he said, is for the justices to see whether they could hammer out a compromise decision on narrow grounds.

www.edweek.org

In the festive season we hammer out these emblems, made by the distinguished hand of craftsmen.

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