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up-or-out

up-or-out adjective: relating to the practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.

Adjective

up-or-out (comparative more up-or-out, superlative most up-or-out)

  1. Relating to the practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
    • We follow an up-or-out policy at six years. Either you become a partner or you are gone.

Forms of up-or-out

comparativemore up-
comparative-out
superlativemost up-
superlative-out

Questions about up-or-out

What does up-or-out mean?
Up-or-out means relating to the practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
What part of speech is up-or-out?
Up-or-out is an adjective.

Words near up-or-out in the dictionary

  1. up-handed
  2. up-jumped
  3. up-line
  4. up-lines
  5. up-minded
  6. up-or-out
  7. up-over
  8. up-plow
  9. up-plows
  10. up-pulled
  11. up-putting

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