Outprocess
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The procedures and paperwork surrounding the termination of a military tour of duty.
"The day began with an organized outprocess consisting of thirteen points where personnel filled out mail cards and baggage tags, weighed baggage, received briefings, and bid farewell to their friends and families."
- 1 To complete the required processes and paperwork in order to end a military tour of duty.
"When SGT Mclntyre Jr., loader, and SP4 Bologna, driver, had to leave to outprocess, SP4 Humphrey and SP4 Kemp were substituted as driver and loader and the crew went on to finish a perfect run, according to the company commander."
- 2 To complete the paperwork for ending a contractual arrangement. broadly
"Management generally prefers to notify and outprocess employees on the same day."
- 3 To process better or more efficiently.
"Why can we— a nation where people grow food and process food and distribute food only if they want to — why can we so consistently and so overwhelmingly outproduce, outprocess and outdistribute a nation where people are ordered to perform these functions . . . under threat of the severest penalties for disobedience?"
Example
More examples"When SGT Mclntyre Jr., loader, and SP4 Bologna, driver, had to leave to outprocess, SP4 Humphrey and SP4 Kemp were substituted as driver and loader and the crew went on to finish a perfect run, according to the company commander."
Etymology
From out- + process.
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