outplace

O1U1T1P3L1A1C3E1

verb

To terminate a person's employment, but help the former employee to obtain another post.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verboutplace (third-person singular simple present outplaces, present participle outplacing, simple past and past participle outplaced)

present singular third person outplaces · participle present outplacing · participle past outplaced · past outplaced

  1. To terminate a person's employment, but help the former employee to obtain another post.
  2. To move to a new location; displace; remove; oust.

    Most will have to outplace the student to a private alternative school with more intensive special education than the public school can offer.

    2014, Donna Mac, LCPC, Toddlers & ADHD: Relief for Parents, A Guide for Clinicians and Teachers
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    At the same time, the District of Columbia and the Department of Health and Human Services are under the 1976 Federal court decision, Dixon versus Sullivan and Dixon to outplace patients residing in St. Elizabeths Hospital into community residential facilities.

    1949, Congressional Record, page 14195

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Englishplace
  8. Englishoutplace

From out- + place.

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Chicago

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