Word.ws English Dictionary

selecting out

selecting out is the present participle and gerund of select out.

Meaning of select out

Verb

select out (third-person singular simple present selects out, present participle selecting out, simple past and past participle selected out)

  1. (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire (an employee).
    • During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations.1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary, Privacy and the Rights of Federal Employees: Hearings

Questions about selecting out

What is selecting out the present participle and gerund of?
Selecting out is the present participle and gerund of select out.

Words near selecting out in the dictionary

  1. selectees
  2. selectest
  3. selecteth
  4. selectin
  5. selecting
  6. selecting out
  7. selectings
  8. selectins
  9. selection
  10. selection bias
  11. selection biases

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: selecting out (page history and authors); select 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “selecting out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/selecting_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.