Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tag out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables
tag out
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.

Transitive verb

verb

To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.

Transitive verb

verb

To replace another person or take another person's place, such as in a shift change at a workplace.

verb

To be replaced by another person, such as in a shift change.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tags out (present, singular) tagging out (participle, present) tagged out (participle, past) tagged out (past)

Derived Forms

tagout

Frequently Paired Words

LOTO lock out

Questions

What does tag out mean?
To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.

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