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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

trot out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
    • It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair. 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
  2. To bring something forward in order to display or use it.
    • Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man – ‘Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can; 1895, Banjo Paterson, Johnson's Antidote:

Forms

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trotted out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trotted out Tense=Past lexicographic
trotting out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trots out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

wheel out