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pencilling out

pencilling out is the present participle and gerund of pencil out.

Meaning of pencil out

Verb

pencil out (third-person singular simple present pencils out, present participle (US) penciling out or (UK) pencilling out, simple past and past participle (US) penciled out or (UK) pencilled out)

  1. Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns.
  2. To roughly calculate the expected returns of an investment.

Questions about pencilling out

What is pencilling out the present participle and gerund of?
Pencilling out is the present participle and gerund of pencil out.

Words near pencilling out in the dictionary

  1. pencilless
  2. pencilliform
  3. pencillike
  4. pencilling
  5. pencilling in
  6. pencilling out
  7. pencillings
  8. pencills
  9. pencilly
  10. pencilmaker
  11. pencilmakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pencilling out (page history and authors); pencil out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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