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out

adverb, preposition (OUTSIDE)
 
 
/aʊt/

Definition

outside a building or room: Would you like to wait out here, and the doctor will come and fetch you in a minute? Danger! Keep out! (= Do not enter!) It's bitterly cold out, today.From, out and outside
(Definition of out adverbpreposition (OUTSIDE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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