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finish out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To finish up, to complete, something previously started, particularly a time frame.
    • Don accepted the new job, and they decided to let Billy finish out the school year before he and Jan moved to their new home. Even though it was a hundred-mile drive one way, Jan and Billy were there for Don's first sermon in the new[…] 2019 September 30, David Ford, How You Finish Is What Counts, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
    • A former Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force who had been shot down over Germany and finished out the war in a POW camp. 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 82:
    • They finished out the season in the NBL as the first all-black team in organized professional basketball, with Gates as player-coach. 2021, Syl Sobel, Jay Rosenstein, Boxed out of the NBA, page 25:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
finished out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
finished out Tense=Past lexicographic
finishing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
finishes out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic