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[edit]Verb
[edit]see out (third-person singular simple present sees out, present participle seeing out, simple past saw out, past participle seen out)
- (transitive, formal) To accompany a guest to the door when he or she leaves (also used figuratively).
- Please see our guest out.
- I saw that boy into the world and I will see him out.
- (transitive) To continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion.
- Synonym: see through
- Coordinate term: carry out
- I'll never give up. I'm going to see this thing out.
- 2012 March 1, Honor Molloy, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, Gemma, →ISBN, page 179:
- Life. He's perished with it. / Is he very near the last? / At the backend of it, I'd say. With the prostate, the lungs, the liver. He's already half-ghost. / Can't we have another tomorrow? / This night will see him out. / God-God-God and God-God-God, please save him. […] The average stay was four to six years, when they died. When death arrived, they'd send for Burke and Hare.
- 2022 December 14, Kim Fullbrook, “Sunset draws near for long-serving '313s'”, in RAIL, number 972, page 36:
- The surviving units are now seeing out their final days on the Coastway route in Sussex, operated by Southern.
- 2023 November 25, Rebecca Rose, “How old is too old for a profile pic?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
- It turns out that, in journalistic terms, and especially at the FT, where many staff see out their entire careers, seven years is nothing.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to accompany (a guest) to the door
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to continue something until completion; to watch an activity develop to a conclusion