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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

out to en · X

Meanings

  1. intending to (do a specified action)
    • Jack is out to get you. You'd better hide.
    • This company doesn't care about its customers: it's just out to make a profit.
    • We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
    • The boy who saved a stranger wasn't out to make headlines: he was just being a Good Samaritan.
  2. (informal) Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually before a stated or future event) (synonym of "out from")
    • Five weeks out to my birthday!

Deriveds

out to get someone

Relateds

out to lunch