Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

select out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: se-lec-t out
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fire (an employee).

American usage; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations."
"Employees are, of course, never fired. They are selected out, placed out, non-retained, released, dehired, non-renewed."

Usage

American usage
Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

selects out (present, singular) selecting out (participle, present) selected out (participle, past) selected out (past)

Questions

What does select out mean?: To fire (an employee).

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