SLEEP OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleep out mean? 

• SLEEP OUT (verb)
  The verb SLEEP OUT has 1 sense:

1. work in a house where one does not live

  Familiarity information: SLEEP OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEP OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work in a house where one does not live

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

live out; sleep out

Context example:

our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home

Hypernyms (to "sleep out" is one way to...):

commute (travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

My groom and my page sleep out of the house, and may be set aside altogether.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when I found that we were actually to sleep out there without covering every night, and that he proposed that our food should be the sheep of the Downs (wild goats he called them) cooked upon a fire, which was to be made by the rubbing together of two sticks, my heart failed me, and on the very first night I crept away to my mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He began to sleep out at night, staying away from camp for days at a time; and once he crossed the divide at the head of the creek and went down into the land of timber and streams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)