pull out

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To pull out is to withdraw from a deal, a race or an agreement. You were in it and now you are not.

It takes of. Business and sport use it constantly, so a sponsor pulling out of a deal is a headline. There is a driving sense too, since pulling out of a junction means joining a road, and it is the manoeuvre that causes the most accidents. Troops pull out of a country, which is the military sense, and a pull-out is a removable section of a magazine.

Definitions of pull out

1phrasepull outTo withdraw from an agreement or undertaking.B2
“They threatened to pull out of the deal altogether.”
2phrasemoveTo move out into a road or lane.B2
“Wait for the lorry before you pull out.”

Where it comes from

Middle English
pullen oute
English, today
pull out

From Middle English pullen oute.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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