Meanings
- intending to (do a specified action)
Jack is out to get you. You'd better hide.
3 more examples
The boy who saved a stranger wasn't out to make headlines: he was just being a Good Samaritan.
This company doesn't care about its customers: it's just out to make a profit.
We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer.
1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London - informalAway, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually before a stated or future event) (synonym of "out from")
Five weeks out to my birthday!
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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out to. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20to
“out to.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20to. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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