live out
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Definition
- Verb (Phrasal Verb):
- To reside away from one's place of work or study: To have one's home in a different location from where one works or attends school, typically commuting between the two.
- To experience or fulfill a particular kind of life, or to survive until the end of a period: To spend or complete one's life in a specified way, or to remain alive until a particular point or event.
Usage Examples
- Verb (Phrasal Verb):
- Most of the university's staff live out in the surrounding towns.
- The nanny prefers to live out rather than have a room in the family's house.
- He lived out his final years in peace and quiet.
- She did not live out the full term of her presidency.
Advanced Usage
- "to live out one's days/ life": To spend the remainder of one's life in a particular state or place.
- The retired sailor lived out his days by the sea.
- "to live out a fantasy/dream": To act out or experience something one has imagined or desired.
- The vacation allowed them to live out their fantasy of being explorers.
Variants and Related Words
- Live-in (adj): Residing at one's place of work. (e.g., ).
- Reside (v): To live in a particular place.
- Commute (v): To travel regularly between one's home and place of work.
Synonyms
- Reside externally (for the residential meaning).
- Fulfill, experience, survive through (for the life experience meaning).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
- His legacy lives on.
- Live through: To experience and survive a difficult event or period.
- She lived through two wars.
Related Idioms
- Live out of a suitcase: To travel so frequently that one's belongings are never fully unpacked.
- As a consultant, he constantly lives out of a suitcase.
Verb
- work in a house where one does not live; he can easily commute from his home"
- our cook lives out
- live out one's life; live to the end