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pullout

noun

Meaning

  1. The practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself.
  2. A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.
  3. A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
  4. The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level flight.
  5. An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
  6. An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
  7. The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the board into or over the back of a wave.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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