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outprocess en · NOUN
Etymology
From out- + process.
Meanings
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The procedures and paperwork surrounding the termination of a military tour of duty.
Well, as somebody who demobilized, I didn't like the outprocesses very much myself, hanging out to do very little, I thought.
2009, Examining the Department of Homeland Security's Efforts to Recruit, Hire, and Promote Veterans:SSgt Weight was scheduled to return in two days at the completion of his annual tour and outprocess.
1990, The Air Force Law Review, page 351:The day began with an organized outprocess consisting of thirteen points where personnel filled out mail cards and baggage tags, weighed baggage, received briefings, and bid farewell to their friends and families.
1979, The Engineer - Volume 9, Issue 3 - Volume 10, Issue 3, page 20:
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outprocess en · VERB
Etymology
From out- + process.
Meanings
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To complete the required processes and paperwork in order to end a military tour of duty.
When SGT Mclntyre Jr., loader, and SP4 Bologna, driver, had to leave to outprocess, SP4 Humphrey and SP4 Kemp were substituted as driver and loader and the crew went on to finish a perfect run, according to the company commander.
1987, United States Cavalry Association, Armor - Volume 96, Issues 3-6, page 51:We forwarded projected departure lists to various base agencies instead of asking each person to outprocess through each agency.
1994, Michael P. Vriesenga, From the Line in the Sand, →ISBN, page 33:"I'm a short-timer now, General." Sean chuckled. "Soon as the base doc clears me, I outprocess for a well-earned retirement."
2003, Jessica Hall, The Deepest Edge, →ISBN, page 64:
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(broadly) To complete the paperwork for ending a contractual arrangement.
Contributing to the problem was the surprise request from fab management to outprocess about 120 employees a week early.
1996, Louise Moser Illes, Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing, page 168:Management generally prefers to notify and outprocess employees on the same day.
1982, The Personnel Administrator - Volume 27, page 88:She claims that she has had “problems with her loan package as they are constantly trying to outprocess her student loans,” “has experienced professors that refused to speak to her,” has had “a student approach her about her health,” and "was denied honors in a course because of this matter."
1995, Americans with Disabilities Cases - Volume 4, page 929:
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To process better or more efficiently.
We defy nature to protect our physical and psychological integrity, relentlessly seeking to prove that we can outprocess our own biological identities.
1999, Jeri Fink, Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology, page 172:As computers became faster and faster, people expected them to outprocess the human brain.
1997, G. Lynne Snead, Joyce Wycoff, To Do Doing Done:, →ISBN:Why can we— a nation where people grow food and process food and distribute food only if they want to — why can we so consistently and so overwhelmingly outproduce, outprocess and outdistribute a nation where people are ordered to perform these functions . . . under threat of the severest penalties for disobedience?
1947, Super Market Institute, Proceedings of the annual convention, page 34:
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