What does spell out mean?

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spell out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spell outverb

    make explicit; specify in detail

    "You should spell out your demands"

  2. spell outverb

    spell fully and without abbreviating

    "Can you spell out your middle name instead of just giving the initial?"

  3. spell, spell outverb

    orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

    "How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"

Wiktionary

  1. spell outverb

    To form (a word) from its component letters.

  2. spell outverb

    To explain in a simple and understandable manner.

ChatGPT

  1. spell out

    To spell out means to explain or describe something in a very clear, detailed, and unambiguous manner; often including each individual aspect or step. It may also refer to the act of stating each letter of a word separately to clarify its proper spelling.

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  1. outspell

  2. pollutes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spell out in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spell out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of spell out in a Sentence

  1. Peter Szijjarto:

    It is legitimate from an EU member state to spell out reform proposals, one of the most important merits of the EU is that it has very serious achievements, a part of which are related to a high level of freedom in the movement of labor.

  2. Randi Weingarten:

    These guidelines spell out more of what we need to reopen safely, but they come with a necessary cost the administration would rather ignore.

  3. Pete Ricketts:

    UNL’s plan is also based on the flawed assumption that differences in outcomes among racial groups are the result of systemic racism and how people are treated based on skin color, the data, however, does n’t support this conclusion.The University’s plan makes the claim that racism is' often structural and embedded into systems,' however, it does not spell out specific examples of what this looks like at UNL besides vaguely stating there are.

  4. Emmanuel Macron:

    Look where we are on welfare. We plow a chunk of cash into subsistence benefits, and people are still poor. There's no way out. People who are born poor stay poor, i'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

  5. Helen Clark:

    These sub-goals spell out in great detail what we need to do so that every year there is stock taking as to what we've been able to do.

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