live-out
- residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
Origin of live-out
live1
- to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- to continue to have life; remain alive: to live to a ripe old age.
- to continue in existence, operation, memory, etc.; last: a book that lives in my memory.
- to maintain or support one's existence; provide for oneself: to live on one's income.
- to feed or subsist (usually followed by on or upon): to live on rice and bananas.
- to dwell or reside (usually followed by in, at, etc.): to live in a cottage.
- to pass life in a specified manner: They lived happily ever after.
- to direct or regulate one's life: to live by the golden rule.
- to experience or enjoy to the full: At 40 she was just beginning to live.
- to cohabit (usually followed by with).
- to escape destruction or remain afloat, as a ship or aircraft.
- to pass (life): to live a life of ease.
- to practice, represent, or exhibit in one's life: to live one's philosophy.
- live down, to live so as to allow (a mistake, disgrace, etc.) to be forgotten or forgiven: She'll never live that crucial moment of failure down.
- live in/out, to reside at or away from the place of one's employment, especially as a domestic servant: Their butler lives in, but the maids live out.
- live up to, to live in accordance with (expectations or an ideal or standard); measure up to: He never lived up to his father's vision of him.
- live high off/on the hog. hog(def 16).
- live it up, Informal. to live in an extravagant or wild manner; pursue pleasure: He started living it up after he got out of the army.
- live well, to live comfortably: They're not wealthy but they live well.
Origin of live1
Related Words
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- (intr, adverb) (of an employee, as in a hospital or hotel) to dwell away from one's place of employment
live1
- to show the characteristics of life; be alive
- to remain alive or in existence
- to exist in a specified wayto live poorly
- (usually foll by in or at) to reside or dwellto live in London
- (often foll by on) to continue or lastthe pain still lives in her memory
- (usually foll by by) to order one's life (according to a certain philosophy, religion, etc)
- (foll by on, upon, or by) to support one's style of life; subsistto live by writing
- (foll by with) to endure the effects (of a crime, mistake, etc)
- (foll by through) to experience and survivehe lived through the war
- (tr) to pass or spend (one's life, etc)
- to enjoy life to the fullhe knows how to live
- (tr) to put into practice in one's daily life; expresshe lives religion every day
- live and let live to refrain from interfering in others' lives; to be tolerant
- where one lives US informal in one's sensitive or defenceless position
Word Origin
live2
- (prenominal) showing the characteristics of life
- (usually prenominal) of, relating to, or abounding in lifethe live weight of an animal
- (usually prenominal) of current interest; controversiala live issue
- actuala real live cowboy
- informal full of life and energy
- (of a coal, ember, etc) glowing or burning
- (esp of a volcano) not extinct
- loaded or capable of explodinga live bomb
- radio television transmitted or present at the time of performance, rather than being a recordinga live show
- (of a record)
- recorded in concert
- recorded in one studio take, without overdubs or splicing
- connected to a source of electric powera live circuit
- (esp of a colour or tone) brilliant or splendid
- acoustically reverberanta live studio
- sport (of a ball) in play
- (of rocks, ores, etc) not quarried or mined; native
- being in a state of motion or transmitting power; positively connected to a driving member
- printing
- (of copy) not yet having been set into type
- (of type that has been set) still in use
- during, at, or in the form of a live performancethe show went out live
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for live out
live
v.
Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cf. Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c.1200. Related: Lived; living.
According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]
To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
live
adj.
1540s, "having life," later (1610s) "burning, glowing," a shortening of alive (q.v.). Sense of "containing unspent energy or power" (live ammunition, etc.) is from 1799. Meaning "in-person" (of performance) is first attested 1934. Live wire is attested from 1890; figurative sense of "active person" is from 1903.
live
(līv)- Having life; alive.
- Capable of replicating in a host's cells.
- Containing living microorganisms or viruses capable of replicating in a host's cells.
Idioms and Phrases with live out
live out
1
Complete or survive the end of a period of time, as in Grandpa wants to live out his days in a warmer climate. [First half of 1500s]
2
Reside away from one's place of employment, as in She's a fine housekeeper, but insists on living out. This expression is used primarily for domestic help. [Mid-1800s] Also see live in, def. 1.
3
live out of. Lead a lifestyle characterized by a particular item. This phrase appears in such idioms as live out of a suitcase, meaning “to travel so much that one has no time to unpack one's belongings,” or live out of cans, meaning “to eat only canned food for lack of other foods or time to prepare them.” For example, Traveling for months on end, he got very tired of living out of a suitcase, or We had neither gas nor electricity for a week and had to live out of cans.
live
In addition to the idioms beginning with live
- live and learn
- live and let live
- live by one's wits
- live dangerously
- live down
- live for the moment
- live from day to day
- live from hand to mouth
- live happily ever after
- live high off the hog
- live in
- live in each other's pockets
- live in sin
- live it up
- live like a king
- live on
- live on borrowed time
- live on the edge
- live out
- live through
- live together
- live up to
- live wire
- live with
also see:
- alive (live) and kicking
- as I live and breathe
- close to home (where one lives)
- (live from) day to day
- fat of the land, live off the
- high off the hog, live
- in one's pocket (live in each other's pockets)
- learn to live with
- people who live in glass houses