Meanings
present singular third person outplaces · participle present outplacing · participle past outplaced · past outplaced
- To terminate a person's employment, but help the former employee to obtain another post.
- 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.
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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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Englishplace
- Englishoutplace
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Cite this entry
outplace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outplace
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