follow out

Questions about follow out

What does follow out mean?

follow out means "pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue".

What is another word for follow out?

Close synonyms include follow through, follow up, carry out, implement, put through. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is follow out a common word?

follow out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.