Meaning

A withdrawal, especially of armed forces..

Definitions by Sense

1. A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
2. The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
3. An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
4. (typography) Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).
5. 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.
6. (surfing) The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
7. The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

Example Sentences

Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff.

Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it.

Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest.

[…] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts.

Word Forms

• pullouts
• pull-out

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When Should You Use Pull out?

Use pull out when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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