"let-out" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Deverbal from let out",
      "name": "deverbal"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from let out",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "let-outs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2014, Timothy Lane, Rules for Becoming a Legend, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2015, page unknown",
          "text": "“I just want you to know that this whole Missteps thing has nothing to do with me or any of my staff.” A let-out of breath. “I don't know who it is, but it sounds like that letter to the editor from back when you were playing? […]”",
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        "The act or an instance of releasing or letting out something."
      ],
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          "releasing",
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          "letting out",
          "let out"
        ]
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "letout"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, page 141",
          "text": "It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An opportunity to avoid or escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "opportunity",
          "opportunity"
        ],
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly British) An opportunity to avoid or escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "let-out"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from let out",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "let-outs",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Timothy Lane, Rules for Becoming a Legend, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2015, page unknown",
          "text": "“I just want you to know that this whole Missteps thing has nothing to do with me or any of my staff.” A let-out of breath. “I don't know who it is, but it sounds like that letter to the editor from back when you were playing? […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act or an instance of releasing or letting out something."
      ],
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          "releasing",
          "release"
        ],
        [
          "letting out",
          "let out"
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      ]
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          "ref": "2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, page 141",
          "text": "It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An opportunity to avoid or escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation."
      ],
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        [
          "opportunity",
          "opportunity"
        ],
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          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
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          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
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          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
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          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
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        "(idiomatic, chiefly British) An opportunity to avoid or escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "letout"
    }
  ],
  "word": "let-out"
}