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finish out

verb

Definitions

  1. To finish up, to complete, something previously started, particularly a time frame.

    • A former Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force who had been shot down over Germany and finished out the war in a POW camp.
    • Don accepted the new job, and they decided to let Billy finish out the school year before he and Jan moved to their new home. Even though it was a hundred-mile drive one way, Jan and Billy were there for Don's first sermon in the new[…]
    • They finished out the season in the NBL as the first all-black team in organized professional basketball, with Gates as player-coach.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finish out. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA