tryout
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈtraɪˌaʊt/
- When I was a boy in the 1950s, Little League tryouts were serious auditions.
- auditions and tryouts
- team tryouts
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- I may be a free agent going in for a tryout.
- The other club, they had tryouts to make the team to play us.
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- Well, I mean, for cheer tryouts, I I got dropped many times.
- So have you have you gotten any good tryout data?
- You know, the the rehear rehearsals and and and tryouts for for a drummer for this band is going to be a feta complete, right.
- All of this is a tryout for what they're trying to do with a Trump second term if he were to win in November.
Examples
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The basketball team held auditions to find new players at the tryout last Saturday.
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Coach needed 8 for a team, and only 8 showed up for tryouts.
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And so the tryout went extremely well.
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Is it a tryout situation like my daughter has this weekend?
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And so they gave me a tryout and I did really well with the tryout and they gave me the show.
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You just went there for your tryout last week.
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If we like you, we'll send you to a final tryout in Chicago.
Fiction book (2002) -
Will you give me a tryout?
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- I have a tryout for Newcastle United.
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The results of each tryout should be available to workshop participants.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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1.0
A situation that challenges a person's ability or courage
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3.5
A short performance to get a role in music, theatre or film
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1.9
An activity where people answer questions to show what they know or can do
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Morphology
Etymology
Tryout comes from the two words try ('test') and out ('to see how something works'). So a tryout is a short test or audition where someone is checked to see if they are good enough for a team or a part.