Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

put out to pasture

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: put out -to -pas-ture
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age.

Informal

verb

To discontinue something.

Informal

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put out, to, pasture.

Example Sentences

"They've put John out to pasture and replaced him with someone who's got half his experience."
"Your institutions were important stepping stones. Now they rot. Continuous revolution goes on and you're not with it with your alcoholic, tawdry, self-indulgent subculture. Put out to pasture your dialectic writers, they deserve a good green one, but the revolution must go on."
"“But I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture — a simple painter,” added the 43rd president, who said he published the book to “elevate” the discourse around immigration."
"That version of the program has been put out to pasture."
"The other problem was that the electrical locomotives vibrated, […] The electrical locomotives were put out to pasture, the carriages were adapted, and Electrical Multiple Unit traction was introduced from 1903."

Etymology

From the practice of putting draft animals too old to work in a pasture.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

puts out to pasture (present, singular) putting out to pasture (participle, present)

Synonyms

put out to grass

Questions

What does put out to pasture mean?: To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age.
Where does put out to pasture come from?: From the practice of putting draft animals too old to work in a pasture.

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