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US
/ˈaʊtˌɫɛt/
]
[ UK /ˈaʊtlɛt/ ]
[ UK /ˈaʊtlɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a place of business for retailing goods
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an opening that permits escape or release
the canyon had only one issue
he blocked the way out -
activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
he gave vent to his anger
she had no other outlet for her feelings - receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
How To Use outlet In A Sentence
- In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.
- The pores or outlets which open on the skin, however, are a good deal larger than the similar orifices of the perspiratory tubes, but they are not distributed so equally throughout the body. The Art of Living in Australia
- He urged booksellers to cooperate to form a nationwide chain of ecumenical book outlets that would be well-funded and professionally run.
- Relying too much on markets for either input supplies or sales outlets places the low unit cost of production that comes with economies of scale at risk.
- So many useful shops disappear, to be replaced by a retail outlet that is not welcomed by many of us.
- Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
- Far more serious than their sins against the basic rules of journalism is the corporate stranglehold over the major print and broadcast outlets.
- All of the information collated here is part of a wider investigation currently being pursued by a number of media outlets.
- Europcar, which has developed the system with UK-based digital agency Fortune Cookie, will equip the system at a number of major outlets elsewhere around Europe from the end of the first half of 2010.
- I never wanted this blog to be a diary - it was supposed to be an outlet for my various writings.