Definitions for top out
top out

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. top outverb

   give up one's career just as one becomes very successful

   "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out"

2. top, top outverb

   provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)

   "the towers were topped with conical roofs"

3. top out, peakverb

   to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity

   "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"

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1. top out

   In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction. Nowadays, the ceremony is often parlayed into a media event for public relations purposes. It has since come to mean more generally finishing the structure of the building, whether there is a ceremony or not. Also commonly used to determine the amount of wind on the top of the structure. Another, more functional reason, that a pine tree was hoisted to the top of framed out buildings (topping-out) was that it was a Scandinavian tradition to hoist the tree. When the pine needles fell off, they knew the wood frame below had cured/dried-out so they could in-close the building.[Engineering News, early 1970’s]

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How to pronounce top out?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say top out in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of top out in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of top out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of top out in a Sentence

1. Ebrahim Rahbari:

   We remain bearish U.S. dollar, and expect the downtrend to resume as U.S. real yields top out.

2. Hero Hector Guadalupe '':

   They start at $ 35 an hour, top out at $ 80 an hour. Full corporate benefits, when you provide people with livable wages, they're able to feed their families... and be productive members of society.

3. Ebrahim Rahbari:

   We remain bearish U.S. dollar, and expect the downtrend to resume as U.S. real yields top out, continued Fed dovishness remains important for our view, in addition to global recovery, so we’ll watch upcoming Fed-speak closely.

4. Art Hogan:

   If you back the lens up and say 'How has consumer discretionary done for the whole year and when did it top out?', it topped out right when we started to cycle into the things that hadn't been working.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=top out
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Out