liftout

Meanings

nounliftout (plural liftouts)

businessThe practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself.
mediaA quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.
Synonyms: pullout, pull quote
A rescue by means of aircraft.
If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.
2018, John Kerr, Wanted: John & Lucy

nounA quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.

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Deverbal from lift out.

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