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out-and-home

out-and-home adjective: of a journey, to a destination and then returning home.

Adjective

out-and-home (not comparable)

  1. Of a journey, to a destination and then returning home.
    • Most South Western Division workings are on an out-and-home basis and on the shorter runs to Salisbury and Bournemouth, some locomotives manage two return trips in the day.1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265

Questions about out-and-home

What does out-and-home mean?
Out-and-home means of a journey, to a destination and then returning home.
What part of speech is out-and-home?
Out-and-home is an adjective.

Words near out-and-home in the dictionary

  1. out west
  2. out with it
  3. out'n
  4. out-
  5. out-and-back
  6. out-and-home
  7. out-and-out
  8. out-and-outer
  9. out-and-outers
  10. out-argue
  11. out-argued

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