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build out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To develop or expand (a system, structure, project, etc.).
    • Doing so will allow defense contractors to build out new manufacturing capacity without the risk of Congress scaling back arms purchases from year to year. 2023 February 9, The Kiplinger Letter:
    • Near-synonym: build up
    • That ambition, backed by the credibility of a World Cup championship and the options inherent in the $250 million contract he received from P.S.G. to stay this summer, now extends to building out his significant business and philanthropic endeavors. 2022 September 6, Tariq Panja, “Kylian Mbappé Is Coming for It All”, in The New York Times:
    • Finance-starved housing associations were encouraged by government from 2004 to "stretch" their balance sheets to buy land in competition with private builders. Many are now in financial distress, having paid too much in the boom years for developments they cannot afford to build out. 2009 August 30, Nick Mathiason, “Prices might be going up, but the new homes aren't”, in The Guardian:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
builds out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
built out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
built out Tense=Past lexicographic
building out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

buildout · build-out

Synonyms

build up

Translations (3)

pl rozbudowywać (to develop or expand) · pl rozbudować (to develop or expand) · hu kiépít (to develop or expand)