verb
work in a house where one does not live
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our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home
• Syn: ↑live out
• Hypernyms: ↑commute
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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intransitive verb1. : to sleep outdoors
2. : to go home at night from one's place of employment
a cook who sleeps out
3. : to sleep away from home
you can't sleep out … simply anything might happen to you — Edith Sitwell
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sleep out
1. To sleep outdoors overnight (sleepˈout noun)
2. To sleep away from one's place of work
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Main Entry: ↑sleep
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ˌsleep ˈout [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they sleep out he/she/it sleeps out present participle sleeping out past tense slept out past participle slept out] phrasal verb
to sleep outside
Most people who sleep out do it because they are homeless.
Main entry: sleep
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sleep outdoors
Useful english dictionary. 2012.