- let out
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intransitive verb
Date: 1888
to conclude a session or performance <school let out in June>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
let out
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let out — {v.} 1a. To allow to go out or escape. * /The guard let the prisoners out of jail to work in the garden./ * /Mother won t let us out when it rains./ Compare: LET LOOSE. 1b. {informal} To make (a sound) come out of the mouth; utter. * /A bee stung … Dictionary of American idioms
let out — {v.} 1a. To allow to go out or escape. * /The guard let the prisoners out of jail to work in the garden./ * /Mother won t let us out when it rains./ Compare: LET LOOSE. 1b. {informal} To make (a sound) come out of the mouth; utter. * /A bee stung … Dictionary of American idioms
let out — index communicate, disband, discharge (liberate), disengage, disenthrall, emit, free (not restricted … Law dictionary
let-out — adj. /let owt /; n. /let owt /, adj. 1. (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur. n. 2. Chiefly Brit. a means of… … Universalium
let out — verb a) To release. The students were let out of school early. b) To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls. He let out the reins when they were a mile from the barn … Wiktionary
let-out — noun Let out is used before these nouns: ↑clause … Collocations dictionary
let out — phr verb Let out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bellow, ↑breath, ↑cackle, ↑call, ↑chuckle, ↑clang, ↑clutch, ↑cry, ↑curse, ↑exclamation, ↑feeling, ↑flat … Collocations dictionary
let out of — phr verb Let out of is used with these nouns as the object: ↑flat … Collocations dictionary
let out of jail — index parole Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
let out of prison — index discharge (liberate), disenthrall, free, parole Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
