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leave out

vb (tr, adverb)
1. to cause to remain in the open: you can leave your car out tonight.
2. to omit or exclude
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.leave out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
elide - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
2.leave out - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"
pass over, skip, skip over, jump - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
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Translations
يُخْرِجُيُغْفِل، يُهْمِل، لا يَشْمَل
vynechat
udelade
jättää pois
izostaviti
sleppa úr, sjást yfir
省く
빼놓다
utesluta
ไม่รวมไว้ใน
çıkarmakdahil etmemekkoymamak
bỏ ra ngoài

w>leave out

vt sep
(= not bring in)draußen lassen
(= omit)auslassen; (= exclude) peopleausschließen (of von); he was instructed to leave out all references to politicser bekam Anweisung, alle Hinweise auf Politik wegzulassen; he had been left out in the restructuringer wurde bei der Neugliederung nicht berücksichtigt; you leave my wife/politics out of thislassen Sie meine Frau/die Politik aus dem Spiel; he got left out of things at schooler wurde in der Schule nie mit einbezogen; she felt left outsie fühlte sich ausgeschlossen
(= leave available)dalassen; I’ll leave the books out on my deskich lasse die Bücher auf meinem Schreibtisch; will you leave the tools out ready?legen Sie bitte das Werkzeug zurecht
(= not put away)nicht wegräumen, liegen lassen
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leave1

(liːv) past tense, past participle left (left) verb
1. to go away or depart from, often without intending to return. He left the room for a moment; They left at about six o'clock; I have left that job.
2. to go without taking. She left her gloves in the car; He left his children behind when he went to France.
3. to allow to remain in a particular state or condition. She left the job half-finished.
4. to let (a person or a thing) do something without being helped or attended to. I'll leave the meat to cook for a while.
5. to allow to remain for someone to do, make etc. Leave that job to the experts!
6. to make a gift of in one's will. She left all her property to her son.
leave alone
not to disturb, upset or tease. Why can't you leave your little brother alone?
leave out
not to include or put in. You've left out a word in that sentence.
left over
not used; extra. When everyone took a partner there was one person left over; We divided out the left-over food.
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leave out

يُخْرِجُ vynechat udelade auslassen παραλείπω omitir jättää pois exclure izostaviti escludere 省く 빼놓다 weglaten utelate opuścić excluir, omitir пропускать utesluta ไม่รวมไว้ใน çıkarmak bỏ ra ngoài 省去
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If a contractor bids much lower than the rest of the qualified contractors, he may have missed something, and will then try to make up the shortfall with "leave outs" or "extras." His bid should be carefully analyzed to make sure the price is based on the needs of the building, because cheaper is not always better.