close out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
verb
To terminate a computer program.
verb
To seal off.
Example Sentences
- "Lisicki recovered quickly enough and broke once again at 1-1, using her heavy to serve to dominate before a sweetly-struck backhand down the line closed out the set after 43 minutes."
- "Sales people are taught how to close out the deal. Buyers are less well trained but protect themselves with processes that stop the seller from reaching this stage."
- "Much to the dismay of bartenders, many 20-somethings prefer to close out and pay after every drink, no matter how many beverages they end up ordering."
- "WYCA members are also expected to approve an extra £1.4m in development funding, which would help "close out outstanding legacy issues and allow the project to be remobilised"."
- "You either want to land on the top of the wave (if it has closed out), or in the transition"
- "Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out."