Definition

Verb: - To formally or politely conclude an interaction or meeting with someone by facilitating or allowing their departure. It often implies a courteous or ceremonial act of seeing someone out.

Usage

This verb is used to describe the action of ending a meeting, visit, or encounter by accompanying or signaling for someone to leave. It is a formal and polite term.

Examples

• Verb:
  • The butler will usher out the guests after the dinner party.
  • After the interview, the assistant ushered the candidate out of the building.
  • The meeting concluded, and the host ushered everyone out of the conference room.

Advanced Usage

• "to usher someone out (of something)": To escort someone as they leave a specific place.
  • The security guard ushered the protestors out of the lobby.
• The phrase can carry a connotation of a polite but firm conclusion to an event or a person's presence.

Variants and Related Words

• Usher (verb): To lead or guide someone somewhere, often ceremoniously.
  • The attendant will usher you to your seats.
• Show out (phrasal verb): A less formal synonym meaning to escort someone to the exit.
  • Let me show you out.

Synonyms

• Escort out: To accompany someone as they leave.
• See out: To accompany a departing person to the exit.
• Dismiss (in certain contexts): To permit or signal to leave.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• See off: To go to the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye.
  • We went to the airport to see her off.
• Show someone the door (idiomatic): To ask or tell someone to leave, often in an unwelcoming manner.
  • His rude comments finally got him shown the door.

Related Idioms

• Show someone out: Similar in meaning, though slightly less formal than "usher out."
  • Thank you for coming. Let me show you out.

Verb

1. end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave
   • I was dismissed after I gave my report